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The Treasury Department’s Material Support Carveouts are a Welcomed First Step – But Congress Must Act to Create a Sustainable Fix

Congress needs to pass legislation to expand vital protections for NGOs delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance.

Lawyers Under Threat: Highlighting Their Plight

The annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer focuses attention on an increasingly frequent tool of autocrats: targeting their opponents' lawyers.
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The Ukraine War and the Crime of Aggression: How to Fill the Gaps in the International Legal System

An expert analysis of the diplomatic and legal options for creating a tribunal for the crime of waging a war of aggression against Ukraine.

Justice Will Be Crucial to a New Deal in Sudan

Sudanese politicians and military leaders are making a second serious attempt at negotiating a path toward civilian rule and democracy.
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The Just Security Podcast: Closing the War Crimes Impunity Gap

Biden recently signed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, fixing loopholes that allowed alleged war criminals to escape prosecution.
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It’s Past Time to Take Social Media Content Moderation In-House

Editor’s Note: This essay is co-published with Tech Policy Press. Barrett is the deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, where he writes about…

In the Global Resistance to Autocracy, Turkey’s Boğaziçi University Faculty Deserves Pride of Place

Entering their third year of protests against Erdogan's dictates, they encapsulate many aspects of the global struggle for democracy.
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Just Security Podcast: Promoting Diversity in the U.S. Military

To discuss the military’s efforts to increase diversity, and what it means for national security, we have Bishop Garrison and Heidi Urben. 

Україна та Нідерланди очікують ключових рішень в справах проти Росії за роки війни

У той час як наближається річниця повномасштабної війни Росії проти України, в різних судах розглядається…

Ukraine, Netherlands Await Pivotal Rulings in Cases Against Russia from Previous Years of War

The European Court of Human Rights is due to rule on admissibility and, notable for other cases too, Russia’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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Closing the Impunity Gap for War Crimes

The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act will increase accountability prospects for atrocity crimes within the U.S. judicial system.
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Twenty-One Years On, US Detention at Guantánamo Bay Remains Unconscionable

"The prison continues to cause profound and escalating damage to the aging and increasingly ill men still detained indefinitely there, most without charge and none having received…
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