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New NATO chief Mark Rutte takes over at critical juncture

Mark Rutte takes the helm at NATO on October 1, after more than a dozen years as Dutch prime minister. He'll need all his diplomatic skills to manage the alliance in testing times.

2024-09-29 14:46

New NATO chief Mark Rutte needs to build consensus

Mark Rutte takes the helm at NATO on October 1, after more than a dozen years as Dutch prime minister. He'll need all his diplomatic skills to manage the alliance in testing times.

2024-09-29 14:46

Events and Announcements: 29 September 2024

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to [email protected]. Calls for Papers Conference on Indigenous and Minority Rights: The Congress of Nations and States (CNS) along wi…

2024-09-29 14:22

How Europe's far right is changing EU asylum policy

The EU has been hardening its migration policy for years, but the ascendant fortunes of the far right have member states skittish about their freshly agreed asylum reform package.

2024-09-28 15:48

Final Flight: The Dutch F-16’s Farewell Flight At Volkel Air Base

Focus on the final flight of the Dutch F-16 over the Netherlands. As already reported here, on Sept. 27, 2024, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) bid farewell to its iconic F-16 Fighting Falcon jet.  [...] The post Final Flight: The Dutch F-16’s Farewell…

2024-09-28 09:49

Taliban push back against allegations of gender bias, rights abuses

Islamabad — Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have defended their Islamist rule amid intensified accusations of "gender-based" discrimination against women and girls at this week's U.N. General Assembly. "The situation is not as it is portrayed and propagated…

2024-09-28 01:48

Afghanistan to be taken to International Court of Justice over approach to women’s rights

Women are prohibited from speaking in public or showing their faces outside their home

2024-09-27 18:03

The Great Migration Rift: abandon values or risk collapse

The EU and its countries are sleepwalking into a make a break moment for a common approach to migration policies, as right-wingers are strong-arming the bloc to either compromise on its values or see cooperation fall apart all together.

2024-09-26 14:08

Australia set to take Taliban to International Court of Justice for gender discrimination

Human rights groups say it's the first time that countries have used the ICJ to take another country to court over gender discrimination.

2024-09-26 04:44

The EU judicial cooperation agency is stepping up its fight against organized crime

The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, has launched a new network to strengthen and further coordinate the continent’s fight against organized crime

2024-09-25 12:22