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United Nations Security Council meeting on January 25, 2019 at the United Nations in New York.

National Security at the United Nations This Week

At the UN this week: ISIL remains a global threat, the US and Russia draft rival Security Council resolutions on Venezuela, the UN welcomes a new peace accord in the Central African…
Feb. 15, 2019

Secretary Pompeo: More Russia Sanctions Are Coming … Sometime

This article is cross-posted at Steptoe International Compliance Blog. On February 13, 2019, the State Department provided a summary of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent…
Feb. 14, 2019 , and 1 more
Judges Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Bertram Schmitt and Raul Pangalangan sit in the courtroom prior to the sentencing of Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba and his accomplices before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on March 22, 2017.

ICC Judge Schmitt Counsels Resilience to Preserve International Justice

Editor’s note: At a difficult time for the International Criminal Court (ICC)—criticism over recent rulings, resistance from current and prospective members, and threats from…
Feb. 13, 2019

The Pentagon’s Latest Report on Civilian Casualties Policy

Late on Friday night, the Pentagon submitted to Congress and publicly released a 17-page report required under the 2019 John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)…
Feb. 12, 2019 and
Yemen and surrounding area on a map.

Congress, Saudi Arabia, and the Conflict in Yemen: Where do We Go from Here?

Congress has strong options to constrain U.S. involvement in Yemen's civil war and hold Saudi Arabia's leadership accountable for human rights abuses, including the killing of…
Feb. 12, 2019
A Syrian woman hangs laundry in Raqa in the midst of collapsing buildings.

General Comment 36: A Missed Opportunity?

General Comment 36 on the human right to life under article 6 of the ICCPR adopts the view that both international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (IHRL) apply during…
Feb. 11, 2019
International Human Rights Unit seal reads, "No Safe Haven - Criminal Investigative Division"

EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s War Crimes Unit on the Chopping Block

The FBI's International Human Rights Unit may be dissolved, according to US officials. Here's why that's a bad idea, writes Beth Van Schaack.
Feb. 10, 2019
United Nations Security Council meeting on January 25, 2019 at the United Nations in New York.

National Security at the United Nations This Week

This week at the UN: detention of Turkic Muslims in China, the potential end of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, North Korean sanctions violations, a call to action…
Feb. 8, 2019
Yemeni women and children wait during food distribution in the province of Hodeida on May 30, 2018.

Avoiding the Next Yemen: Applying Hard Lessons for Security Partnerships

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen, wrought by a conflict entering its fourth year, has called into question the nature and purpose of American security partnership with Saudi Arabia.…
Feb. 6, 2019 and
A general view taken on September 10, 2018 during the opening day of the 39th UN Council of Human Rights at the UN Offices in Geneva.

Targeted Killing and the Right to Life: A Structural Framework

Shaheed Fatima Q.C., analyzes the recently issued "General Comment 36" of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which sets forth a legal framework under human rights law for…
Feb. 6, 2019
Pedestrians walk past a stencil depicting the map of Kosovo with the Cyrillic writing "No division", in downtown Belgrade on November 11, 2018.

The Last Thing the Shaky Western Balkans Needs Is More Border Changes

It’s hard to know which direction the Western Balkans region is headed these days. There are some encouraging signs, even amid very worrying trends. Signs of promise include…
Feb. 5, 2019
Portraits of victims mark the memorial to the Islamic State (ISIS) massacre of 1,700 Shiite Air Force cadets from Camp Speicher beneath a bridge where victims were shot and their bodies thrown into the Tigris River by the Sunni jihadist group in Tikrit, Iran, on November 10, 2016.

Bringing ISIS to Justice: Running Out of Time?

The international community and key actors in Syria and Iraq need to develop a coherent plan to bring ISIS members to account for war crimes, not just counterterrorism crimes,…
Feb. 5, 2019
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