Are we finally about to get a global agreement on aviation emissions?
Sep 26, 2016 06:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Tomorrow, delegates from more than 190 nations will begin an 11-day meeting in Montreal to determine the final form of a scheme to reduce greenhouse emissions from the aviation industry. The meeting the latest in a...
Why the International Criminal Court is right to focus on the environment
Sep 25, 2016 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The International Criminal Court is not known for prosecuting people responsible for huge oil slicks, chopping down protected rainforests or contaminating pristine land. But these people may now one day find themselves on...
ASEAN goal to eradicate drugs in the region leads to disregard for human life
Sep 22, 2016 02:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
Four years ago member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations adopted the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. Yet today the region is seeing a worrying backward trend in human rights protection in the name of a...
Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know
Sep 22, 2016 00:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public officials scrambling to delete entire accounts full of messages dating back...
Corporate bosses could soon take the rap for staff criminality
Sep 21, 2016 17:04 pm UTC| Law
Imagine your boss being criminally liable for your actions, even if they had not authorised you to carry them out. Imagine, as a company director, being criminally responsible for an employees actions even if you were...
The vital rules which meant a double murderer nearly escaped justice
Sep 21, 2016 17:00 pm UTC| Law
Christopher Halliwells conviction for the murder of Becky Godden has, it is hoped, finally brought some closure to her family. They have waited many years to see her killer face justice. Halliwell, a 52-year-old former...
How the American online sex trade continues to thrive
Sep 21, 2016 06:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: theyd recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs. But over the past 20 years, the internet...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight