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An essay by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Professor E. Tendayi Achiume.

(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,…

Hungary and Brazil aren’t outliers: Leaders in China, Bolivia, Cambodia, India, and elsewhere are using sweeping measures — some of them newly implemented — to restrict civil…

The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.

In early June 1939, more than 900 passengers—almost all Jewish—sailed near the Florida coast aboard the MS St. Louis. Fleeing persecution by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party in…

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Can a change of perspective dislodge the assumed inevitability of an enduring democracy?

The pandemic has punctuated systemic socio-economic disparities. Don't let reopening measures make them worse.

Any certification that labels countries as not cooperating fully on counterterrorism and includes only the five countries listed by the State Department last month is less about…

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Under what circumstances may the government use lethal and non- or lesser-lethal force in the face of unlawful protests, riots, and looting?

It is no secret that the Trump administration, in general, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, specifically, are hostile toward the International Criminal Court (ICC), particularly…