Human Rights
Just Security’s expert authors offer in-depth analysis on critical human rights challenges, including those related to armed conflict, emerging technologies, abuses by authoritarian governments, repression of human rights advocates and independent media, human rights litigation, racial justice, gender equality, and more.
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The New Jane Crow: Women’s Mass Incarceration
(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a special Just Security “Racing National Security” symposium edited by editorial board member Matiangai Sirleaf. The goal of…
Trump Administration’s Women, Peace and Security Plans: Blueprint for Action or Empty Promises?
The president and his officials take many actions diametrically opposed to these plans. But Congress and civil society can keep the pressure on.
National Security at the United Nations This Week (July 10-17)
(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Pandemic Politics: Race, Sex, and the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court waded into debates on harm-reduction and crime control for the second time when they revisited and clarified issues related to the U.S. government funding of…
Transitional Justice in the United States
Transitional justice provides an important lens for ongoing national conversations in the United States about police brutality and racial injustice. Transitional justice asks us…
Judgement in the Begum Case: A Good Day for the Protection of Human Rights
The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal issued its judgement in the Shamima Begum case on Thursday morning. Begum was deprived of her citizenship under the British Nationality Act…
Trump’s Latest Assault on Asylum Has Nothing to Do with National Security or Public Health
Last Thursday the Trump administration issued the latest in a long line of administrative rules that unlawfully ban and punish asylum seekers and others pursuing related humanitarian…
Black Security and the Conundrum of Policing
We are in a new phase of the long police reform debate. Over decades, opaque spending, police staffing practices, expansion of criminal codes, and other factors have made some…
How the Financial Systems America Built Enable Oppression Abroad
Congress may have a new opportunity to tackle this complicity with a proposed amendment to the NDAA on beneficial ownership.
Does Transitional Justice Belong in the United States?
The first piece in our Racing National Security Symposium explains why transitional justice belongs in the United States.
Racing National Security: Introduction to the Just Security Symposium
How does race manifest in national security?
Top Experts: DOJ’s Bureau of Prison Blocking Michael Cohen Book about Trump Violates First Amendment
On Thursday morning, Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, was returned to prison. Many readers like myself may have passed over the headlines for this particular…