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 ‘Obligation to Prevent’ in a Future Crimes Against Humanity Convention
Adopting a Crimes against Humanity Convention would significantly strengthen efforts to prevent these crimes and reinforce justice.
The Next Step for USAID’s New Digital Policy: Account for Conflict Risks and Include Peacebuilding
These elements are vital to ensuring that the agency's aid programs related to digital technology address drivers of violent conflict and fragility, and mitigate risks.
Rethinking the United Nations Cybercrime Treaty
The U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime clearly challenges the democratic vision for a free Internet and puts the United States on the spot.
The Just Security Podcast: What to Expect from the 2024 U.N. General Assembly
Unpacking the key themes around this year’s U.N. General Assembly is Richard Gowan, the U.N. Director at the International Crisis Group.
U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week 2024 : What Experts Are Looking For
A slate of top analysts eyes the prospects and how debates are likely to unfold amid backsliding on development and on global cooperation.
A Modern Narcos? A Guide to the “El Mayo” Sinaloa Cartel Surrender
The dramatic surrender of El Mayo and Guzmán López to U.S. authorities reveals the complex dynamics of cross-border criminal law enforcement.
Political Violence in the United States Is Rising – and It Might Be Up to Americans to Say “Enough!”
How does this moment in the United States fit into trends of political violence, and what might be done to reduce the risk of escalation?
History Has Already Discredited the TikTok Ban
The TikTok ban is a reincarnation of past reactionary efforts to limit Americans from accessing media from abroad.
To Challenge State Capture, the US Needs a Strategy of State Retrieval
The democratic world must side with pro-democracy, peace, and anti-corruption movements in Africa and act against corrupt networks.
Vlogging International Criminal Justice? Digital Optics at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), tasked with addressing the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime, has ventured into uncharted territory: TikTok.
Telegram’s Security Sham
Its track record and transparency practices, as well as the testimony of researchers, make it plain its claims of security are not to be trusted.
Adding Gender to Apartheid in International Law: But Where?
Could discussions about the revival of the Apartheid Convention provide a basis for rethinking the approach to the codification of gender apartheid?