Countering the spread of forced labor in global trade has long been an American priority, and the United States has among the strongest laws in the world to address it. However,
as of 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor still identified 204 goods from 82 countries as being made by child and forced labor. [...]
When the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor obtained arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria
Lvova-Belova, in March 2023, he must have known that the Court was in for a bumpy ride. [...]
U.S. immigration enforcement policies will come into sharper focus this upcoming week with the spectacle of two congressional hearings. The killings of two U.S. citizens, Renee
Good and Alex Pretti, galvanized the Senate and House homeland security committees to call for public testimony from the heads of the three main immigration agencies. [...]
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today mediated indirect talks between Iran and the United States, with convoys for the two countries arriving separately to meet with Omani Foreign Minister Badr [...]
On 20 November 2024, Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), through the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), became a signatory to the Africa Charter for Transformative Research
Collaborations. This piece positions and introduces the key argument of the Africa Charter, posits its relevance as a benchmark for RefLex, a new Centre for Advanced [...]