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The Echoes of Incarceration: In Conversation with Mansour al-Omari
Mansour al-Omari is a Syrian human rights defender and legal researcher. He holds an LLM in Transitional Justice and Conflict. Al-Omari...

Nour Kachi
15 min read


A Palestinian Lawyer’s Battle for Justice: In Conversation with Raji Sourani
Raji Sourani is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and Founder and Director of the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights. He was an Amnesty...

Shahad Alkamas
25 min read


Human Rights and the Russia-Ukraine War: In Conversation with Oleksandra Matviichuk
Oleksandra Matviichuk is a prominent human rights defender, currently leading the Center for Civil Liberties and coordinating the...

Nadia Jahnecke
16 min read


The Chilling Effect of the Law on Election Finance
‘Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy,...

Grace Houghton, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Exploring Ukrainian Identity: In Conversation with Anastasiia Marushevska
Anastasiia Marushevska is Editor-in-Chief of Ukraїner International. Ukraїner, conceived by journalist and writer Bohdan Lohvynenko as a...

Nour Kachi
21 min read


Behind the Closed Doors of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Wassim Hassan
Wassim Hassan is a Syrian political activist. He is a member of the The Syrian Women's Political Movement and the Mouatana Movement, a...

Nour Kachi
24 min read


Leave the Empire Windrush at the Bottom of the Ocean: In Conversation with Gus John
Gus John is an award-winning writer, education campaigner, and lecturer. His work spans the fields of education policy, management, and...

Donari Yahzid
13 min read


Afrodescendants Claim Rights to Benin Bronzes—They Belong to All of Us
We are the Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York-based non-profit founded in 2000 to campaign for innovative approaches to healing...

Deadria Farmer-Paellmann et al
8 min read


Don’t Debase My Desires: Examining the Links Between Adaptive Preference Formation and the Cultivation of Public Emotion
In our society and social theory, there is a fine line between a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’ decision. While society uses moral justifications...

Donari Yahzid
18 min read


A Journey through the Many Faces of Accountability: In Conversation with the Legal Advisors at eyeWitness to Atrocities
Anna Gallina is a Legal Consultant at eyeWitness to Atrocities. Julianne Romy formerly worked as a Legal Advisor at eyeWitness to...

eyeWitness to Atrocities
24 min read


Legitimising State Violence in Syria
‘It is authority and not truth that makes the law’[1] German philosopher Hannah Arendt says in her book On Violence : ‘The authority does...

Yara Bader
24 min read


A Just Sudan: In Conversation with Moneim Adam
Moneim Adam is a human rights attorney and the Gisa Group’s Program Director for the Sudan Human Rights Hub (SHRH). He began his career...

Solomon Njombai
24 min read


Justice Through Information: In Conversation with Francisco B González Centeno
Francisco B González Centeno is an officer for the International Criminal Court (ICC) from Buenos Aries, Argentina. He holds an MSc in...

Nour Kachi
15 min read


The Barriers to Family Migration: In Conversation with Helena Wray
Helena Wray is a professor of migration law at the University of Exeter. Her extensive experience in this area spans several...

Eleanor Taylor
31 min read


Resistance in Babylon: Nurturing Hope and Creativity Amidst the Storm of the UK’s Immigration Challenges
Ali Ghaderi is a young refugee from Iran. He arrived in the UK five years ago through a family reunification scheme which was available...

Lerato Islam and Ali Ghaderi
15 min read


The Fight for Justice for Yazidi Women: In Conversation with Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist. In 2014, she was abducted from her hometown in Iraq, Kocho, by the Islamic State, as part...

Nadia Jahnecke
9 min read


Surviving Female Genital Mutilation: In Conversation with Marie-Claire Kakpotia Koulibaly
Marie-Claire Kakpotia Koulibaly is a feminist and activist fighting to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriages....

Nadia Jahnecke
22 min read


Nowhere to Call Home
Boarding a crowded Delhi Metro train, I was crammed up with four college boys who seemed quite amused by my Tibetan face. As if the grins...

Tenzin Tsundue
11 min read


The Challenges and Possibilities of International Criminal Law: In Conversation with Johann Soufi
Johann Soufi is a Franco-Algerian international lawyer and prosecutor, and a former Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations. He has...

Nadia Jahnecke
20 min read


Neither Maid nor Man: In Conversation with Alex Garden
A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Abi Dore
23 min read


The Syrian Conflict: The Myth of Containment and the Realities of Accountability
How and why the international community failed Syria One of the most unforgiving aspects of the Syrian Conflict is the fact that its...

Ammar Abdulhamid
19 min read


Life as a Hazara Woman in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Soomaya Javadi
Soomaya Javadi is a Hazara human rights activist who fled Afghanistan with the help of the 30 Birds Foundation. Actively advocating...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


Guantanamo Bay and the Court of Public Opinion: In Conversation with Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is a British human rights lawyer who has spent his career working against the death penalty in the United States,...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


The Old Man of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Riad al-Turk
Riad al-Turk was a political opposition leader, lawyer, and human rights activist from Homs, Syria. By many Syrians he is seen as a...

Nour Kachi
10 min read
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