An expert in international law explains that the Trump administration’s justification for deadly strike doesn’t hold water.
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Corporations that benefit from poverty should have a legal duty to mitigate the harm of poverty from which they benefit.
The recent climate case win in the European Court of Human Rights by a group of older Swiss women has real implications for a number of current cases before New Zealand courts.
Differing U.S. and Canadian political and judicial systems offer Canada protections against outlawing abortion here. But there’s still a lot of work to be done to ensure reproductive justice.
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
50 years ago, a noted U.S. philosopher argued that banning abortion forces women to go above and beyond to help an unborn fetus. What other individual rights are at stake if Roe v Wade is overturned?
Some people seeking to influence public opinion about abortion rights claim the science is clear. It’s not, and that means abortion remains a political question – not a biological one.
The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
The 1973 Supreme Court decision which has underpinned abortion law in the US since might be under threat.
From his positions at the United Nations, Professor Heyns made a huge impact on the protection of the right to life and the right of peaceful assembly.
Uganda must overhaul its national legal framework on the use of force and firearms during law enforcement.
Sanctuaries that protect everything from gun rights to the unborn are popping up across the country. They challenge federal law and the shared understanding of its power and role in the US.
Abortion has been a huge political issue in the US for the last 50 years. But the abortion debate is not new. It began at least a century before landmark abortions rights decision Roe v. Wade.
ASEAN has been silent over the blatant disregard of human lives by the Philippines and Indonesia in the name of the ‘war on drugs’.
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Post Doctorate Researcher under the DANIDA funded project on security, sustainable growth and peace in Uganda., University of Copenhagen
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Head of Research, Freedom from Violence, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor: Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, head of the Unit for Moral Leadership, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor, Political Science, Concordia University
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Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy, University of British Columbia; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Professor, Political Science, Concordia University
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand