Mass expulsion of this kind is often termed ethnic cleansing. In legal terms, it constitutes a crime against humanity. When conducted with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, ...

The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

A new July 2025 investigative report highlights the devastating weaponized sexual and reproductive violence unleashed during the 2020-2022 Tigray conflict in Ethiopia in which the Tigray People’s ...

On 25 June 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its Decision on Kovačević v. BiH. This ruling could completely change the legal assessment of strict ethnic ...

Notably, genetic testing is not a new approach to “female eligibility” in sport. Rather, it revives an old model – last widely used in 1990s – which was deemed unscientific, unethical, and ultimately ...

Die AfD-nahe Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung (DES) hat beim Bundesinnenministerium (BMI) für das Haushaltsjahr 2026 einen Antrag auf staatliche Förderung in Millionenhöhe gestellt. Dieser steht zwar unter ...

In mehreren Bundesländern wird derzeit an einer Reform der Verfassungsschutzgesetze gearbeitet. Ziel ist insbesondere eine stärkere Eingrenzung der Befugnisse der Verfassungsschutzämter zur Informatio ...