Analysis

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

Verified cases in which a norm of international law has been violated — or threatened with violation — in contexts that receive little or no international media coverage. Each case is selected using the SDR-70 method: not for isolated severity, but for the gap between the severity of the fact and the attention it receives. Every piece states the relevant norm, the dated source, and the symmetry test applied.

20 October 2026

Cuba in the dark: the embargo, the oil cut-off and the vote the UN has repeated for thirty years

Born of the revolution and the Cold War, the embargo on Cuba has outlived its reasons. In 2026 Washington also cut off the island's oil, openly saying it wants to bring down the government. The embargo's three reasons tested against the law, and the responsibilities of both sides.

Analysis

Cuba in the dark: the embargo, the oil cut-off and the vote the UN has repeated for thirty years

Cameroon, one year after the vote: protesters before a military court, those who fired before no one

The Rohingya verdict that has not come: what the Court must decide, and what is left for those who wait

What Europe could do: seven proposals

Immigration: the doors Europe closes and the ones it opens

Was Nord Stream a military objective?

Who really decides Europe's choices

Why Ukraine and not Sudan

After 2022: what Europe chose and what it cost

Europe chose the electric car. Who builds it?

The Euro-Russian market that worried Washington: what the numbers say

From 1990 to 2022: how the war in Ukraine came about

Are the world's wars "Muslim"? What the data say, and what the causes are

Libya: a deal to vote within two years, as militias shoot it out around the refinery

South Sudan: an election on December 22, but the peace deal is already over

Airport for airport: how the war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia came back, and what each side wants

Six months for the Court: Washington sanctions the entire ICC and opens a negotiation over its independence

Europe stopped depending on Moscow. Who does it depend on now?

Minab, the school nobody checked

Outside the fence

Six roads for artificial intelligence: the possible scenarios and the signals to watch

How to govern a machine: the tools on the table for regulating artificial intelligence

Ethiopia, the war no one is covering: a guide to understanding it

Sudan, war by remote: who supplies, who pilots, who should stop it

Ecuador, war by decree: calling crime a war to change the rules

Nigeria: who is killed, who tells the story, who should prosecute

The condemned woman who did not die. Who still uses the death penalty, and which limits of the law they breach

Anatomy of an interview: the American plan, Zelensky and a defeat presented as inevitable

Who pays for the war? Ukraine's debt, Russia's frozen assets and a rule Europe will have to bend

Interests first, order second. And no nuclear power is pushing back

Anatomy of an alarm: Russian drones, an anonymous source and two stories without proof

BRICS in New Delhi: international law in the text, and who goes unnamed

The Appeal That Fell Flat: Trump, the ICC, and the Weight of What Goes Unrecognized

The UN says it isn’t safe to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan keeps sending people back — even now that the two countries have declared war.

Niger leaves the International Criminal Court while the United States and Italy continue military cooperation

Taiwan: the price of a balance no one wants to break

Minerals for security: Congo's peace has a price, and Congo doesn't set it

The Full-Face Veil and the State: Imposition, Ban, Non-Intervention

Thirteen years to topple a man the West had already given up on toppling

A deal that worked, torn up anyway

Thirty years to a war

Two warrants, zero arrests

Fifteen Years for a Warrant

The UN says it isn’t safe to return to Syria. Turkey and Germany are sending people back anyway.

Three States, One Treaty, Three Different Standards

Ethiopia: the war the government still calls a “security problem”

Colombia: a 2016 peace deal, and children recruited at gunpoint in 2025

A billion dollars despite sanctions: how Iran keeps funding Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis

Turkish and Chinese drones for Haftar: Libya remains a theatre of UN arms embargo violations, now on both sides of the front line

Four European Court rulings condemn Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Macedonia for hosting secret CIA prisons

The United States armed the Syrian rebellion for five years, then shut down the program as a gift to Putin

Israel allowed and encouraged Qatari funding of Hamas for years — a month before October 7 it asked for more

Mali: army and Russian Africa Corps mercenaries arrange a corpse into a swastika after killing four civilians

Iran: government admits "thousands" dead in protests, then executes the survivors

DR Congo: the Washington peace deal hasn't stopped the killing of civilians in the east

Cameroon: election crackdown lands in a Paris court, as the Anglophone crisis turns ten

Burkina Faso leaves the International Criminal Court while remaining the world's country most affected by terrorism

Afghanistan: the International Criminal Court charges the Taliban leadership with gender persecution

Gaza and the word "genocide": what third-party bodies have actually determined, and why a genocide scholar's voice carries weight

Haiti: a UN-authorized “suppression force” against gangs half made of children

The International Court of Justice deliberates on the Rohingya genocide

The DRC takes Rwanda to the International Court of Justice

The Israeli school system: a factory of the enemy

Iran: the 2026 war nears its end, and the unresolved question of the use of force

Taiwan, the next test: deterrence wavers and the precedent emboldens Beijing

South Sudan on the edge of famine, while the tribunal promised in 2018 remains a dead letter