‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide

When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next.

Why the Iran war did not go according to US plans

Washington made seven deadly mistakes, from misreading Iran’s strategy to underestimating the costs of a prolonged war.

Prominent Palestinian human rights advocate barred from entering France

Shawan Jabarin, the general director of Al-Haq, a West Bank-based NGO that is currently under US sanctions, was scheduled to speak before the European Parliament’s human rights committee in Strasbourg this past Tuesday. However, French authorities denied his visa application.

Can AI systems replace human judges and lawyers?

Can AI make fundamentally ethical decisions? If it delivers an unlawful verdict, who will be punished? In the pursuit of efficiency and speed, can we trust people’s fates to artificial intelligence?

Japan: LDP members demand rewrite of bill to revise retrial system

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday stopped short of approving a modified draft of a bill aimed at revising the country’s retrial system.

Argentina’s politics half a century after the dictatorship

Memory remains trapped between political use, economic failure, and a democracy unable to deliver on its promises.

Indonesian women face prison for ‘stepping on Quran’

Indonesian police arrested two women on charges of blasphemy after a video purportedly showing one of them stepping on a Quran went viral online.