Context: In 2015, over one million refugees and migrants crossed into Europe, primarily fleeing the Syrian civil war, as well as conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, and elsewhere, representing the largest movement of people in Europe since World War II and triggering a profound political crisis across the continent. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would "Wir schaffen das" ("We can do this"), suspending the Dublin Regulation and accepting hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, while other EU states imposed border controls, fences, and quota refusals, exposin
Context: Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks , the United States launched a "War on Terror" that involved controversial measures including mass surveillance, indefinite detention, enhanced interrogation techniques, and targeted drone strikes , raising fundamental questions about the balance between national security and human rights. Key sites of controversy included Guantanamo Bay detention facility , where hundreds of detainees were held without charge or trial, and CIA "black sites" where enhanced interrogation amounting to torture was documented by the Senate Intelligen