Crimes Against Humanity

The war in Sudan has led to genocidal attacks, displacement, disease, and famine, culminating in a grave humanitarian crisis. Yet, amidst the harrowing cries for help echoing from…

The hardline backlash to a UN resolution to commemorate the 1995 atrocities highlights the need for a US and EU deterrence strategy.

The prospect of a UN commemoration of the 1995 massacres in Bosnia as genocide has revived denials of the motives behind the killings.

A pending General Assembly vote on an annual global commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide is spurring vociferous debate.

There is now a clear majority of support for draft Article 7, at least to the extent that it provides for the inapplicability of functional immunity to the crimes of genocide,…

About the legal assessment States providing material support to Israel in the form of arms must undertake.

Iran's new bill shows why the U.N. Sixth Committee should include gender apartheid in the crimes against humanity treaty.

International law concepts at least partially formed in Lviv, Ukraine, now frame discussions about accountability in the Russia-Ukraine war today.

The latest on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

To weaken or condition in any form the duty of States to investigate and prosecute suspected perpetrators would run contrary to the spirit and raison d’etre of a future Convention…

Different models for a single residual mechanism would come with different levels of responsibility for future prosecutions.

Reconstituting the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid and the Group of Three should be given due consideration.