In Focus

Sexual violence against elderly women: an unrecognised issue

During the last decades, violence against women (VAW) and domestic violence has become one of the most debated issues. Very...

Little Lives on Hold: The Impact of EU Securitisation Policy Tools on Unaccompanied Children’s Rights at the Greek-Turkish Border...

Citizenship Revocation as Punishment and the Abandoned Women and Children of IS

Navigating new rights and responsibilities in the Colombian Atrato River - An ecocentric approach to human rights

Women’s cuerpo-territorio: a space of domination and resistance against patriarchal extractivism

Through the analysis of the Colombian case-study and some testimonies of women human rights defenders, this article provides insights into...

Human rights and international arms trade: RWM Italia’s involvement in the Yemen Conflict

This In Focus article discusses the position of business under international law and what their human rights obligations are. In...

Inside Turkey’s Prisons: Protecting Human Rights of Transgender Prisoners

From Schengen to Dublin: limits of the European migration policy

This article is an excerpt of a Master thesis discussing the issue of border control reintroduction within the Schengen Area....

Selected Problems of Implementation of the Espoo Convention: On the Example of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Yemeni conflict: siege as a war crime

The “Security Decrees” I & II and their Impacts on Human Rights: An Analysis of Domestic and International Reactions

How did the American Administrations (Nixon, Ford, Carter) react to the human rights violations of Pinochet’s dictatorship? An account of...

Advancing Human Rights and Democracy through Electoral Justice: The Case of Kenya

Civilians Protecting Civilians: A Case-Study of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) of Human Rights in At-Tuwani, Palestine

The Challenges for Asylum Seekers’ Rights from Populist Majorities’ Interventions on Domestic Asylum Procedures and the Judicial Activism of the...

In the last two decades Europe has seen a dramatic rise of populist parties which have gained increasingly large consensus...