Atrocities

After years of delay, the UN Sixth Committee cleared a path for negotiations on a global treaty regarding the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

Children dying in a camp in southern Sudan shows the toll as the warring parties willfully obstruct food and other aid.

The U.N.'s Sixth Committee recently adopted a resolution for negotiations on a treaty to prevent and punish crimes against humanity.

Technologies such as multispectral cameras and drones can replicate the methods of manual search groups more safely and efficiently.

Slavery often crates the physiological, psychological, interpersonal, or environmental conditions that lead to disability.

Bridging responsible social media with the expertise of those well-versed in the dynamics of mass violence can greatly bolster interventions.

The Al Shirmari verdict may help other plaintiffs chart a path to navigate the Supreme Court’s constraints on Alien Tort Statute cases.

Atrocity-prevention systems developed before the spread of new technologies need to more systematically account for their impacts.

Governments and civil society can harness new and established technologies, even while proactively mitigating associated risks.

This fall, a number of States expressed support for the inclusion of various gender justice proposals in a potential future treaty.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has sharpened third states’ obligation to use their leverage now to reverse the trajectory, writes Dannenbaum.

As torture victims from the Abu Ghraib prison return to U.S. federal court, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Xenakis discusses need for accountability.