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Clara Steitz

US/Africa: Expulsion Deals Flout Rights

(Johannesburg) – The United States’ recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Sudan have exposed several hundred people to a risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and refoulement, Human Rights

Will there ever be a Palestinian State?

Do the Palestinians have a right to form a state? If a one-state solution were implemented, what would happen to the Palestinian population? Why is compromise impossible with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority? The Danube Institute asked Y

Challenging Ukraine’s Mine Ban Treaty “Suspension”

The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which aims to “end .. the suffering” inflicted by antipersonnel landmines, has advanced international law and saved countless lives.[1] It is a cornerstone of humanitarian disarmament, a people-centered approach to

US: Maritime Strikes Amount to Extrajudicial Killings

(Washington, DC, September 18, 2025) – United States military strikes against two boats allegedly carrying drug traffickers, which the Trump administration said killed at least 14 people, were unlawful extrajudicial killings, Human Rights W

New Zealand: Hipkins avoids being questioned by the Covid Royal Commission by citing a fictitious “suppression order”

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has cited a suppression order as one reason for declining to appear at a public hearing of the Covid Royal Commission. However, the inquiry says it does not know of any such order. Let’s not lose touch…Your Gov

Book Review: ‘How Merck and Drug Regulators Hid Serious Harms of the HPV Vaccine’

Last month, Danish physician and medical researcher Dr. Peter Gøtzsche published his book ‘How Merck and Drug Regulators Hid Serious Harms of the HPV Vaccine’. Among others, the book reveals that Merck used numerous tactics to avoid report

DR Congo: M23 Mass Killings Near Virunga National Park

(Nairobi) – The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and farming areas in July 2025 near Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Ri

60 open source organisations sign up to support the needs of the United Nations

On 8 August, the United Nations announced that 60 organisations have signed up to the ‘United Nations Open Source Principles’. The principles include supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system. Th

Larry Fink and André Hoffmann are named new chairmen of WEF: Who is Hoffmann?

In April, at an extraordinary meeting of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) board, Klaus Schwab announced he was stepping down with immediate effect and bogeyman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was appointed the interim Chairman. On 15 August, with th

US and three other countries reject WHO’s IHR amendments; the UK, the global censorship hub, is not one of them

On 18 July, the US officially rejected the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO”) 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (“IHR”), citing threats to national sovereignty, free speech and constitutional protections. If not rejec

Doom Break: A rabbi, a Hindu priest and a politician went on a hike

Here is some light reading for our readers. TriTorch publishes articles on a Substack page titled ‘Out Here on The Perimeter’. Every now and then, he/she publishes a collection of observations, questions and jokes, humorous memes and vide

The Genesis 6 Conspiracy: Think Tanks, Education and Environmentalism

“The founding of geopolitical/economic organisations with Masonic pyramids of money is one aspect of globalism, but we ought not to forget their second pillar of influence: think tanks.”—Gary Wayne, The Genesis 6 Conspiracy Let’s not lose

Iran: Detainees Ill-Treated and Disappeared After Israeli Evin Prison Attack

(Beirut, August 14, 2025) – Iranian authorities have ill-treated and forcibly disappeared Evin prison detainees who survived the June 23, 2025 attack by Israeli forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also found the Israel

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in 2025

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center said today. The June 14 execution of Turki al-Jasser, a j

Cyprus: US and Israel Clash with Turkey over Control of the Eastern Mediterranean

In May 2025, the 8th President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, welcomed the President of the infanticidal Zionist project with open arms: Neighbours, friends, strategic partners. A forward-looking discussion with my good f