Civilian Harm

Myanmar's resistance must find ways to provide justice for those harmed and guarantee due process for those suspected of violations.

To reinvigorate US leadership, consider why US action on the 2008 Albright-Cohen blueprint has not translated into more success.

Charges against a Syrian man accused of committing atrocity crimes could set important legal precedents for future cases in the Netherlands.

Perhaps no one is better equipped to consider the impact of counterterrorism on human rights than Fionnuala Ní Aoláin. This is Part 1 of a special two-part conversation.

A response to an article published on how military campaigns can never be rendered disproportionate by the total harm inflicted on civilians.

Whether the magnitude of State responses to terror is ethical and wise goes beyond determinations of legal compliance.

States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

A guide to the humanitarian law conditions on U.S. arms sales and security assistance to Israel.

In armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and climate-induced disasters, older people often suffer disproportionately. First in a series.

The right of self-defense does not permit a disproportionate loss of civilian life, writes Professor Adil Haque in this essay on what U.N. Member States can say.

Death, displacement, and hunger demands action to overcome physical and logistical roadblocks to humanitarian aid.