Farid Lamara, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet them” (1987 Brundtland Report, “Our Common Future”). This agenda outlines 17 Sustainable Development
Bonita Meyersfeld, University of the Witwatersrand There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international law. Many argue that only states are bound by international law, and it is those states which are obliged to regulate how businesses operate within their borders. Corporations have only a
Delving into Human Rights via a Humanities Perspective
Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By: Monique O. Madan U.S. Customs and Border Protection is trying to build AI-powered border surveillance systems that automate the process of scanning people trying to cross into the U.S., an effort
By: Neena Bhandari The Australian human rights commission has embarked on a project looking at the social risks and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) — a technology whose implications experts say are also beginning to emerge in the developing world. Launched with a report published on 24 July, the project is looking
M. Rodwan Abouharb, UCL The brutal war in Ukraine is now over a year old. While estimates of the numbers of civilians killed and injured vary, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that 8,317 civilians have been killed and a further 13,892 injured from the beginning of the
The legal battle to bring Vladimir Putin to justice for his alleged involvement in human rights abuses and corruption scandals has been a topic of great interest in recent times. While some legal efforts have been made to hold Putin accountable for his actions, there are many legal and political obstacles that prevent
Ales Bialiatski, a renowned Belarusian human rights activist and founder of the human rights center Viasna, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a court in Minsk. Bialiatski, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, has been a vocal critic of the Belarusian government for many years, and his
by Lynzy Billing ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For more than two decades, the U.S. military has been barred from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit “gross violations of internationally recognized
Qatar claimed millions of dollars in unpaid wages were already disbursed Three weeks ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar’s Labour Minister has rejected calls from human rights groups to compensate migrant workers involved in building stadiums and other infrastructure. A global campaign called #PayUpFIFA was launched by Human Rights Watch (HRW)