Geneva Conventions

On BBC on Sept 3rd 2022, Ms Zelenska quoted: As UK counts pennies, we count casualties. — Nice statement, well put, one would think. Not everybody agrees… The costs of War are mainly on the Ukraine population. I include there the people of Donbass, Mariupol who seem relieved to be in the Russian zone. …

Foreign students living in Ukraine, you all need to understand the following information (given the absolute nonsense, people are talking about these days). There are rumors and fear-mongering going on about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. …

This year, it has been 70 years since the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees was signed. The agreement has helped many and is still very relevant today, particularly its non-refoulement clause which forbids sending people back to unsafe countries. However, the convention has become stretched to its limits…

70 years ago, on the 28th of July in 1951, the Geneva Refugee Convention was written and implemented. In the years after the Second World War, the world was quite aware about the pain and despair closed borders mean for people who flee their homes. Aware, that in many cases…

Implementing Human Rights Standards Implementation of human rights at the global level has always been a difficult task because the world has both developed and under-developed countries, and it depends upon the countries’ resources and compliance with Human Rights. …

/ FAITH, HOPE…

On Sunday, January 24, Israel’s health minister Yuli Edelstein went on British television and disavowed any and all legal obligation to vaccinate Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was really a rather shameful performance by Mr Edelstein, who until then, had answered all the other questions…