Fozia Hussain
“I am here because I listen to my consciousness. Because I have children, because of my children. Because I desire to live in a country where we can still live”. (Kadir Demir, protester)
A law which would
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A CONTRARIO, a blog devoted to research and writing on global justice issues, seeks to inspire discourse on various subjects related to international justice. Starting in September 2012, the A CONTRARIO team hopes to foster relationships within the international community by contributing meaningful engaging insight as a foundation.
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COVID-19: A primer on Human Rights and International Health Regulations
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The outbreak of coronavirus ( COVID-19) first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China has created a worldwide scare and has highlighted the global vulnerability to all nations alike. It has…
COVID-19: A primer on Human Rights and International Health Regulations
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The outbreak of coronavirus ( COVID-19) first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China has created a worldwide scare and has highlighted the global vulnerability to all nations alike. It has been declared as…
Seeking refuge from climate change
Anne Watanabe
In January, NOAA and NASA announced that the previous decade was the hottest on record, and the UN warned of more extreme weather events in the new decade, the result of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Climate change’s impacts –…
Easy targets? Sex Trafficking in the Prison System
Mariam Paulose
“The eye doesn’t see what the mind doesn’t know.” — D.H. Lawrence
We would like to believe slavery has been abolished since the 19th century yet it continues to exist all around us. We are oblivious to its…
UEFA and the Military Salute Investigation – Part II
Yahya Kemal Aksu
Continued from Part I
General Principles of Conduct
According to the article 11 (1) of UEFA DC “Member associations and clubs, as well as their players, officials and members, and all persons assigned by UEFA to exercise…
UEFA and the Military Salute Investigation – Part I
Yahya Kemal AKSU
Introduction
Within the scope of participation to UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2020), in Qualifying rounds, Group H, Turkey played against Albania on October 11, 2019 and France on October 14 respectively. In both matches, after the…
Demystifying the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Ayodhya dispute
Taanya Trivedi
In a historic judgment by the Honourable Supreme Court of India (SCI), the Court put to rest a volatile dispute dating back to 1885 that has been “a flashpoint of continued conflagration,”[1] which has caused enormous loss…
Chagos Islands: In Pursuit of Due Process
ADETOKUNBO HUSSAIN**
INTRODUCTION
‘So forcible within my heart I feelThe bond of nature draw me to my own,My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;Our [S]tate cannot be severed, we are one,One flesh; to lose thee were…
The Rohingya Genocide Continues
Regina Paulose
International crimes against the Rohingya which has been perpetrated against them for decades continues even after the alarming events of August 2017 that forced over a million Rohingya to flee in to Bangladesh. Since that time there has…