Seeking Asylum or seeking international protection is only one of many problems in today’s world. Many wars; civil wars,and the war on terror have made people seek international protection, and because of it the world is ...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is seen by some as the most tangible innovation in the reform process that created the Human Rights Council in 2006 to replace the repudiated Commission on Human Rights. It is an ...

This thesis is inspired by the long lasting media and politicians’ discussions about building the Nord Stream Pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Nobody disagrees about the need of the pipeline between Russia and Europe, but there ...

This paper identifies a growing trend of the adoption of restrictive laws regulating establishment and operation of NGOs in Azerbaijan, Belarus and the Russian Federation. Broad and vague provisions often provide the ...

This study is an attempt to examine the legal status under International Humanitarian Law of children in situations of attack on targets involving them. The thesis will also explore other relevant rules of International ...

This thesis addresses the extent which freedom of expression and information (FOE/I) right have been extended to citizens in the ASEAN states. Criteria to access the conformance with international standards in FOE/I are ...

Year 2011 has been a “freedom of assembly year” as we have not only watched the events of “Arab spring” and “Occupy Wall Street”, but UN appointed the first-ever Special Rapporteur on the rights of freedom of assembly and ...