Burma/Myanmar

Nationality-based restrictions will separate families and are the wrong tool to promote public safety and national security.

It will be important to identify the pathways for Myanmar to comply within a governmental system that gives its military extensive autonomy, while not allowing it to hide behind…

Ignoring such propaganda only risks undermining efforts to stop atrocities.

Only time will tell whether the provisional measures now issued are sufficient to prevent future genocide in Myanmar.

By any measure, last week was a banner one when it comes to moving towards accountability for crimes against the Rohingya in Myanmar. The week started with The Gambia filing a…

Myanmar taken to ICJ over genocide of Rohingya, IAEA reports further Iranian steps away from JCPOA, UN experts find al-Shabaab a potent threat despite U.S. air strikes, the UN…

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North Korea is evading UN sanctions, DRC violence could amount to crimes against humanity, calls for a Security Council referral to the ICC of the situation in Myanmar, China prevents…

The UN inquiry on 2018 Gaza protests is out; the ICJ tells the UK to relinquish the Chagos Islands; the Security Council rejects competing Venezuela resolutions; the UN will investigate…

In September, Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced that she was opening a preliminary examination of forcible deportations of the…

If international law creates a right—or even a duty—to respond to massive rights violations, such a right—or duty—has long since been triggered in Myanmar.

If the U.K. and the U.S. make it a priority, those responsible for the terrible crimes against the Rohingya could be held accountable. But now, with Bolton’s scathing remarks…