Even where populists don’t win power through the ballot box, they gain it through shaping policy and public debate.
It is in uncertain times—like the aftermath of the Brexit vote—that we need human rights the most.
The road to international justice is long and often winding, as Bosnia and Herzegovina shows us.
Since rising intolerance in Europe is not confined to anti-Semitism, Europe’s response also needs to be broader.
European governments risk adopting the same counter-productive approaches towards the latest Islamist groups and fighters as they did against al-Qaeda.
The EU approach exploits what is effectively a loophole in international law. If a person never reaches the EU state’s territory, the legal obligations under refugee and human rights law are never triggered. Shouldn’t we be talking about this in the run-up to the European elections?
There have been repeated claims of UK complicity in the alleged torture of individuals detained abroad. The government’s latest move in the saga does not suggest a desire to get to the bottom of them.
The forthcoming trial in The Hague of the arrested Serb warlord is an occasion to assess the achievements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, says Benjamin Ward.
