Yesterday, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament) adopted the first-ever resolution on autonomous weapons (so-called ‘killer robots’ or LAWS), underlining the ‘urgent need for the international community to address the challenges and concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems’....
“Guilty Silences” is the title of the dossier presented by the NGO Italy-Burma Together on 24 October at the Italian Parliament during a press conference on ‘The Danieli Case’, moderated by Francesco Radicioni of Radio Radicale. The dossier, subtitled...
by Ambra Visentin
It has been five years since Unitad, the UN Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), established at the request of Iraq, began its work. In...
Days before the “Lampedusa case” erupted with a bang, there were those who had already put forward proposals (not the first) to deal with a deep-rooted problem that requires concrete solutions: the immigration phenomenon. That’s why on 6 September...
By Ambra Visentin
Patrick Kroker is a lawyer at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), where he leads work on human rights violations in Syria. He was counsel of the co-plaintiffs in the Al-Khatib trial against Anwar...
by Ambra Visentin
An international summit “to understand how to help the countries that migrants leave, and how to stop the trafficking and the traffickers”. These were the declared aims of the International Conference on Development and Migration held yesterday...
by Ambra Visentin
Seventy-five years have passed since the violent events of 1948, when two thirds of the Palestinian population were driven from their land and homes by Israeli forces. Since then, the violence has not stopped, but has increased...
by Ambra Visentin
Violence has become the norm in France, even against peaceful protests, two weeks after the killing of 17-year-old Nahel by security forces. On Saturday, 2,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Paris in memory of Adama Traoré, who was...
By Ambra Visentin
Stella Assange recounts the long struggle to free her husband. A case of persecution by the US with the complicity of the UK. 'If we allow extradition, we agree to lose the right to the truth'.
How is...
by Ambra Visentin
The climate goals of the Paris Agreement are becoming increasingly unattainable due to a lack of academic research and NGO interest in one of the main drivers of the climate crisis - global military and armed conflicts...
