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Virrual press conference by H.E. Mr. Riad Al-Malki, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (June 19-26)

(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,…

Jun. 26, 2020 Kamran King

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Coronavirus Adds Urgency to Ending Egypt’s Detention and Torture of Children

The United States has long justified its support for Egyptian security services as necessary for the security and stability of Egypt and the region. Yet the means by which the…

May 5, 2020 Aya Hijazi and Bill Van Esveld

Fitsum Abade (R), managing director of Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics services, Boureima H.Sambo (2nd R), World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Ethiopia, Steven Were Omamo (3rd L), WFP's country director in Ethiopia, and Ahmed Ogwell ouma, deputy director of African CDC, attend the launch of the United Nations Airport Hub for Humanitarian shipments to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus at Ethiopian Airlines' cargo facility at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa on April 14, 2020.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (April 11-17)

US halt on WHO funding. Warnings on lifting coronavirus restrictions and on sweeping pandemic effects. Syria, Libya, Somalia, Colombia. And more in our weekly recap.

Apr. 17, 2020 Randi Michel

Women and children ride in the back of a truck at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for the displaced where families of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters are held, in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on December 9, 2019.

Rehabilitating the Islamic State’s Women and Children Returnees in Kazakhstan

Many countries are looking at what kind of model Kazakhstan builds with its efforts to reintegrate ISIS returnees, and whether it will be effective. The countries that get this…

Dec. 12, 2019 Stevan Weine

A Security Council vote at the United Nations, 12 September, 2003.

National Security at the United Nations This Week

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,…

Sep. 20, 2019 Emily Shire

Protestors led by a coalition of interfaith religious leaders demonstrate against US immigration policy that separates parents from their children, June 23, 2018 outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California. A sign reads, “Stop caging families,” and many protestors wear shirts reading, “& Vote.”

Fear and Loathing on the Border: A First-Hand Look at the Travesty

Far from the loophole-ridden sieve described by the administration, the asylum system we saw was a Kafka-esque labyrinth designed to punish migrants who dare to exercise their…

Sep. 13, 2019 Ambassador Donald Steinberg

A girl stands crying at al-Hol camp for displaced people in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on July 22, 2019, as people collect UN-provided humanitarian aid packages around her.

Legislative Responses to ISIS Returnees Take a New Twist in Australia

This week, the Australian Parliament is considering new laws that ban “extremists” from returning home, apparently aimed at preventing Australians, including women and children,…

Jul. 26, 2019 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

A sign reading, “Government property no trespassing,” is posted at the U.S. Border Patrol station where lawyers reported that detained migrant children had been held unbathed and hungry in Clint, Texas. June 26, 2019

We Treat America’s Wartime Detainees Better Than Migrant Children

Migrant children held in temporary government custody should be detained in conditions superior to those of enemy fighters detained during wartime. Today, it appears they are not.…

Jul. 10, 2019 Ryan Vogel

Central American migrant families arrive at a Catholic Charities respite center after being released from federal detention on June 12, 2019, in McAllen, Texas.

Top Expert Backgrounder: Children in Immigration Detention — What are the International Norms?

Vice Chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Felice Gaer, writing in her personal capacity.

Jul. 1, 2019 Felice D. Gaer

Women and children evacuated from the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz arrive at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 6, 2019.

Repatriating ISIS Families: An Opportunity to Show that “Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism” Can Work

Working with returning mothers and children may be the best opportunity that any country, or the international community more broadly, will ever have to get preventing/countering…

Jun. 14, 2019 Stevan Weine and Eric Rosand

An Iraqi student stands on a pile of rocks and debris in a classroom following a blast at a school in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City on December 7, 2009.

Focusing on Armed Non-State Actors: Protecting Education in Armed Conflict

While States have formal opportunities to commit themselves to the protection of schools, ANSAs do not, even though it is crucial to acknowledge the role they play in education…

Jun. 11, 2019 Ezequiel Heffes

Fully veiled women and children walk in the northern Kuridish-Syrian city of Qamishli as Uzbek women and children linked to the Islamic State group are handed over to diplomats from the Central Asian country for repatriation, on May 29, 2019.

Time to Bring Women and Children Home from Iraq and Syria

Kazakhstan proves that bringing home the women and children stranded in Iraq and Syria is possible for all countries facing the problem.

Jun. 4, 2019 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)