International law
Your Human Rights Court Is Not Our Human Rights Court, Says Putin
Vladimir Putin has signed a law officially allowing the Russian Constitutional Court to pick and choose whether or not it follows rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.
The US Says Asteroid Mining Is Legal for Americans. What About Everyone Else?
A new US law says American companies can keep resources they obtain in space, but some argue it contravenes international space law.
Survivors of Fatal Shipwreck Accuse Turkey of Illegally Deporting Them Back to Syria and Iraq
Some of the refugees who survived the sinking of a boat that killed at least 22 off Turkey told VICE News that they've been kept in grim conditions and then coercing them home, against international law.
We Spoke to the Lawyer Advising Australians Who Want to Illegally Fight the Islamic State
Fighting in Syria and Iraq is illegal, even if you join the Kurds against the Islamic State. Adelaide lawyer and war veteran Ralph Bleechmore offers advice to those who want to go anyway.
These Are the 6 US Prisons That May Soon House Guantanamo Detainees
A long-forgotten government report reveals US facilities that could become new homes for detainees as part of the White House's long-standing goal to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
'Do Whatever You Want to Civilians': Myanmar Military Accused of War Crimes on Eve of Obama Visit
As world leaders descend on Myanmar this week, new war crime accusations against the country's military have emerged in a detailed report.
The Dutch Are Extraditing a Russian Hacker to the US After Two Years of Debate
Apparently internet law is first-come, first-extradition.
A Task Force of Military Types Just Called Out Obama's Endless Drone Wars
On Thursday, a panel made up of former military and intelligence officials released the most thorough examination yet of America's fondness for the remote-controlled flying death machines commonly known as drones.
Israel Is Holding Even More Palestinian Children In Solitary For Throwing Rocks
A recent report outlines the increasing rates of Palestinian children detained and held in solitary confinement.
100 Days Of Successful Asylum Seeker Policy—Kind Of
Hasn’t it just flown by? Well unless you’re in detention that is.
Governments Have Been Spying Their Way Out of Dealing With Climate Change
Recently released documents from Edward Snowden's monumental leak trove show that the NSA spied on America's behalf during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, apparently with help from signals intelligence henchmen in Canada, Australia, the UK, and New...
A Canadian Journalist Is in an Egyptian Jail and Nobody Seems to Care
If there’s anything that usually galvanizes journalists, it’s the mistreatment of one of their own. But more than a month after an Al Jazeera journalist was arrested in Egypt for “broadcasting false news,” most Canadians are probably still unaware of...