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A Review of the Special Rapporteur Reports Regarding “Drones” and the Use of Lethal Force

Background The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr Christof Heyns, recently reported on the topic of the use of lethal force through armed…
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Breaking News: Security Council Authorizes Robust Peacekeeping Mandate for CAR

[The full text of Resolution 2127 is now available.] An important development this morning in the Security Council to respond to a recent upsurge in violence in the Central African…
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UN Secretary General Calls for More Transparency About Drone Use

The United Nations Secretary-General has released a new report (A/2013/689) on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which devotes significant attention to current drone…
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Summary of New Report from the ICRC

Last month, the ICRC released a 90-plus page report titled, “The Use of Force in Armed Conflict: Interplay between the Conduct of Hostilities and Law Enforcement Paradigms.”…
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Is the Draft UN Resolution on the Right to Privacy a Trojan Horse for Libertarians?

In response to recent revelations of NSA foreign surveillance programs, the UN General Assembly appears poised to adopt a Resolution on the international right to privacy. Because…
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European Court Urged to “Break Conspiracy of Silence” on CIA Black Sites in Europe

On December 3, attorneys for two Guantánamo detainees argued before the European Court of Human Rights that Poland bears responsibility for the torture, disappearance, and unlawful…
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Remarks on the Holy See’s Statement on Weaponized Drones

[Editor’s Note by Ryan Goodman – As Sarah Knuckey explains in an accompanying post, a statement by the Holy See at an intergovernmental conference in November constitutes…
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Introduction to the Holy See’s Statement on Weaponized Drones

Today at Just Security, the Holy See’s Attaché to the United Nations for Disarmament and Security Affairs, Antoine Abi Ghanem, guest posts on a significant new statement…
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Did the UN General Assembly Let the US Entirely Off the Hook on the Right to Privacy?

In early December the UN General Assembly will adopt, almost certainly by consensus, a resolution on “the right to privacy in the digital age.”  Intensive negotiations at…
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Iran’s Right to Enrichment

Whether Iran is possessed of a right to enrich uranium is said to be the central question in its negotiations with the P5+1.  It should not  be. Neither side’s argument is…
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Milanovic on an Extraterritorial Right to Privacy

In light of recent “revelations” that the NSA–like its counterpart espionage agencies around the globe–engages in surveillance of many people overseas,…
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ICC Assembly of States Parties Rundown

As previously noted, the 12th session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) has been underway in The Hague this week.  A number of items of relevance to U.S. policy on atrocity…
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