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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What Is the Flores Agreement, and What Happens If the Trump Administration Withdraws from It?
If the Trump administration succeeds in ending a decades-old court decision governing the treatment of migrant children, it will be able to detain migrant children indefinitely…
Dispelling Some Myths About Consular Immunity and the Khashoggi Investigation
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both parties to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR). Because the alleged acts took place at a consulate rather than the Saudi embassy,…
Trump Gets “Presumption of Innocence” Wrong on Saudi Responsibility for Khashoggi Disappearance
President Donald Trump has weighed in several times in recent days on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi in ways that seem intended to minimize Saudi Arabia’s responsibility,…
Trump Administration Missed Crucial Opportunity This Summer to Rein In Saudi Arabia
Over the summer, Canada took a stand against Saudi Arabia’s flagrant human rights violations and suffered economic consequences while the Trump administration watched on in silence.
MBS and the Torture Victims Protection Act–His travel to the United States may no longer be an option
As each day brings new developments in the murder of Jamal Kashoggi, one of the questions I’ve been wondering about is what role, if any, US courts might play in helping…
European Counter-Terrorism Approaches: A Slow and Insidious Erosion of Fundamental Rights
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, titled, “Europe to Terrorists: It’s No More Monsieur Nice Guy,” praised the robustness of the recent European approach to counterterrorism,…
States Are Challenging New Policy That Denies Asylum to Survivors of Domestic Violence
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief on September 28, in support of a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy that denies asylum…
Family Separations: Evolved Not Resolved
In a new development, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has approved a settlement in a set of family separation cases.
On Big Brother Watch v. U.K.: The Future of Surveillance at Two Europe-Wide Courts
A recent opinion by the European Court of Human Rights was more limited than recent decisions concerning surveillance. The European Court of Justice should seize the opportunity…
Saudi Arabia Policymakers’ Outlook: How to Convert Financial into Political Clout?
Commentators are now highlighting the Jamal Khashoggi situation as the last in a series of reckless and disruptive activities of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a point…
U.S. Should Condition Saudi Membership in Elite Financial Club on Progress Prosecuting Terrorists and Observing the Rule of Law
"Until such time as Saudi Arabia has demonstrated a serious commitment to investigating all financing of terrorists and a genuine commitment to the rule of law– whether internal…
An Explainer: Senate’s Letter on Khashoggi and the Global Magnitsky Act
Here are answers to a few common questions concerning the Global Magnitsky Act as it relates to the disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.