As the migrant caravan works its way north, and is further demonized for doing so, the world should reflect on this and how one of the pillars of international law – the category of civilian – is being eroded

State-sanctioned ethnic cleansing and ongoing human rights violations is what enabled the Jewish settlers to occupy the lands on which they live in the first place

By claiming that the other side is using human shields, the attacker provides itself with a pre-emptive legal defence

The main crisis of human rights is not about perceptions, but about its complicity with domination

The crux of the matter is that in the context of contemporary asymmetric warfare, the weak do not have many options