U.N. Human Rights Chief to Leave, Citing ‘Appalling’ Climate for Advocacy
Zeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable. The United Nations’ top human rights advocate...
Foreign Policy
Dec 21, 2017
Yugoslavia tribunal closes, leaving a powerful legacy of war crimes justice
The court that put Slobodan Milošević in the dock is to be formally dissolved this week after 24 years and 161 indictments. Victims’...
The Guardian
Dec 20, 2017
Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don’t Forget Us”
Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who...
The New Yorker
Dec 20, 2017
OPINION: In 2017, no one has fallen further than Aung San Suu Kyi
The world is a mess. Wars are devouring civilian lives. In the United States and elsewhere, populist leaders are eroding eroded...
Christian Caryl | The Washington Post
Dec 20, 2017
Myanmar’s Crackdown On Human Rights Continues As It Denies Entry To UN Investigator
Myanmar’s government rescinded access by a United Nations official who has been investigating human rights in the country, including the...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Dec 20, 2017
Turkish PM terms persecution on Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’
Terming the atrocities on Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “ethnic cleansing”, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...
Daily Star
Dec 20, 2017
Myanmar refuses access to UN Special Rapporteur
The Government of Myanmar has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation...
Genocide Watch
Dec 20, 2017
Trump Nominee Concedes Saudi Siege of Yemen Could Be Violating U.S. Law
By Dan de Luce U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for the top legal advisor at the State Department has acknowledged that Saudi Arabia...
Foreign Policy
Dec 20, 2017
Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study
One of the most ambitious studies conducted on Syria’s civil war and American options to mitigate it finally saw the light of day on...
New York Times 1
Dec 20, 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi: Culpable of 'Genocide'?
In recent months, the United Nations has hardened its view of the Rohingya’s plight in Myanmar to be that of “textbook ethnic cleansing,”...
The Diplomat
Dec 19, 2017
New Report: El Salvador's Politics of Perpetual Violence
El Salvador, a small country in the isthmus of Central America, is wracked by an implacable strain of gang warfare. Exceptionally intense...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 19, 2017
Argentina: Ex-Ford executives on trial for aiding 1970s dictatorship torture
Two former Ford executives are facing court, accused of helping Argentina's military kidnap and torture workers during the 1976-1983...
!a Deutsche Welle 1
Dec 19, 2017
