Atrocities

Too many on either side speak to themselves as if the other side didn’t exist or isn’t relevant.

Fujimori, serving 25 years for death squad massacres, walked out of prison as corrupt networks again coopt democratic institutions.

Fujimori, serving 25 years for death squad massacres, walked out of prison as corrupt networks again coopt democratic institutions.

The international community failed 20 years ago to stop mass atrocities and genocide in Darfur, and is now failing again.

A plea for the equal application of international law to protect against atrocities in the Israel-Hamas War.

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.

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.

An update on the U.N. General Assembly's Sixth Committee session in October, and what to expect for a proposed crimes against humanity treaty.

The excesses of atrocity should not distract from the quieter, quotidian violence that started long before the 2023 Israel-Hamas War.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.