With the high-level UN General Assembly meeting this week, the pending Trump administration “review” of U.S. membership in international organizations and treaties, and reports of a Trump ...

The Lancet recently published two important contributions on legal accountability.1,2 Both were triggered by the 2025 landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate ...

Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers ...

Barbs between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro laid bare, on global diplomacy's biggest stage, ...

Brazil’s reliance on individualized litigation to access social security benefits may be entrenching inequality.

Governments attending the Africa-CARICOM Summit should closely work with civil society and affected communities to develop a human rights-based approach to reparations, Human Rights Watch said today.

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 167, No. 3 (December 2020), pp. 475-493 (19 pages) In the absence of effective judicial remediation mechanisms after business-related human rights violations, ...

Google software engineer Blake Lemoine’s claim that the AI-based chatbot LaMDA is sentient has sparked significant ...

In letters published on the UN’s website on Sunday, the experts addressed Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies, as well as the governments of Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the United States, ...

Africa is home to a large portion of the world’s biodiversity, and while much is known about its wildlife, the human dimensions of conservation are still not well understood or appreciated. In many ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments around the world to increase policy and legislation in support of mental health services. According to the WHO, the number of people ...

More than one billion people are living with mental health disorders, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), with conditions such as anxiety and depression inflicting ...