Addressing Displacement: An Inherent Problem of a Divided World
June 2026
Over 120 million displaced people face human rights violations. A divided world system creates stateless individuals and refugee crises.
Human Rights
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Modern Slavery: what more should be done?
World Federalist Movement · July 2025
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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
World Federalist Movement · March 2024
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Climate Change Lawsuits Around the World
December 2023
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Stopping Human Trafficking
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
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The future of aid delivery to Afghanistan; the role of Europe and the diaspora
World Federalist Movement · October 2023
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Refugee
World Federalist Movement · June 2023
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War and Peace: whose freedom?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
All articles in Human Rights
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Religion & Rights
World Federalist Movement · July 2022
Western individual rights and Asian collective ones are not at odds: Confucian and Islamic traditions both affirm what the Universal Declaration sets out. What the world still lacks is not agreement on rights but the means to enforce them.
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Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Children who marched to Geneva in 1998 helped win an ILO convention against the worst child labour, now ratified by 165 states. Yet some 200 million children still work, many in debt bondage in South Asia, where the laws go unenforced.
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Uncertainty regarding the ICC’s delayed preliminary examination in Venezuela
World Federalist Movement · October 2021
Venezuela’s victims have no remedy at home and were already blocked from the Inter-American system, so Valentina Ballesta of Amnesty International urges the ICC prosecutor to open an investigation without delay or hibernation.
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Nigerian Victims Deserve More Than Hibernated ICC Investigations – They Deserve Justice
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Victims of Boko Haram and security-force abuses have little prospect of justice in Nigerian courts, writes Benson Chinedu Olugbuo, so shelving an ICC investigation for lack of resources would leave them nowhere to turn.
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Hibernations Must Not Curtail the ICC’s Investigation in the Situation in Palestine
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Al-Haq’s Susan Power argues that the ICC prosecutor has no clear criteria for shelving cases, and that stalling the Palestine inquiry, already examined by ten commissions, would deny justice.
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Must Justice Sleep or Hibernate for the Victims of the Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’?
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Filipino civil society leaders fear the ICC probe could be shelved: only one of thousands of extrajudicial killings has ended in a conviction, and Duterte pulled the Philippines out of the Rome Statute.
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The Right to Peace: A Political Approach
June 2019
A culture of peace can become a recognised human right. The 2016 UN declaration on the right to peace binds no one, but it builds the public opinion that must come before any legal ban on war.
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Bolton Is No Einstein
December 2018
The author argues that prioritizing national sovereignty over human rights leads to global instability and conflict. He urges a shift from the ‘law of force’ toward the ‘Rule of Law’ and increased global cooperation.
