atrocities/mass atrocities
188 Articles

Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the “Global East”
Despite a tendency to analyze global divisions over aggression trials through a “West” versus “Global South” binary, the longer-term stakes of accountability for Ukraine…

Ten Years on From the Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria: What Lessons Have Been Learned?
The Syrian government still has not been held accountable for its brutal chemical weapons attack on Ghouta ten years ago.

The UN Should Increase Support for the Responsibility to Protect
Efforts to protect populations from atrocity crimes are unlikely to advance without an empowered senior U.N. official at the helm.

Starvation as a Means of Genocide: Azerbaijan’s Blockade of the Lachin Corridor Between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
The US, Russia, and other world powers have avenues both to halt the current situation and to pursue justice and accountability.

International Criminal Accountability for Yahya Jammeh’s Administration: The Gambia-ECOWAS Court
The government of The Gambia, ECOWAS, and the AU have a responsibility to action the decades-long justice and accountability demands of the victims and survivors of the Jammeh-era…

Why a Group of Jews Came to Mourn the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide
Seeking to ensure all such horrors – Auschwitz, Srebrenica, Bergen-Belsen, Kigali, Bucha – are integrated into the world’s consciousness.

Why Say Who Did What? The Ethiopia Case and the Power of US Atrocity Determinations
Are they meaningful if condemnation is followed blithely by economic engagement with the same actors who committed the violations?
Joint Symposium on U.S. Cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation
A Joint Symposium with Articles of War on U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine investigation

Is Henry Kissinger a War Criminal?
For all the advances made by international justice, a powerful American former secretary of state still seems beyond its grasp.

The Brussels Declaration: Russian International and Human Rights Lawyers’ Statement on Accountability
A statement by Russian lawyers, scholars and advocates. "They strongly hope that their unified voice will be heard."

Progress, Resistance, and Silence on Gender Justice in the Draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Gender must be “on the table” throughout the discussion and eventual negotiation of a treaty on crimes against humanity, and everywhere that States seek to prevent or punish…

The U.N. Process for a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty Has Finally Started. Will It Account for Persons with Disabilities?
The Sixth Committee’s review of a proposed CAH treaty is a critical opportunity to ensure that persons with disabilities are not left behind.