Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

The Biden administration needs to use visa sanctions more transparently if they are to have a serious political impact.

This week's developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

Since MSF raised the alarm about sexual violence and the crisis in eastern DRC as a whole, a slew of diplomats, U.N. officials, and local authorities have visited and expressed…

Accountability for the crime of aggression matters because acts of aggression can lead to other grave crimes, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.

La communauté internationale devrait répondre avec urgence à l'agression potentielle par le Rwanda envers la RDC.

The international community should respond to potential Rwandan aggression against the Democratic Republic of Congo with urgency.

As the largest financial contributor – and debtor – to UN peacekeeping, the US is uniquely positioned to reverse the trend.

To explain the M23 conflict, and what the United States can do to pressure Rwanda to withdraw, we have Daniel Levine-Spound and Ari Tolany.

The United States should take immediate steps to halt all security cooperation activities with Rwanda until concrete conditions are met.

What the empirics say about how States and non-State actors actually behave on the battlefield and under what conditions their compliance with humanitarian law changes.

Recent escalation of violence in eastern DRC has already displaced over 150,000 civilians and killed at least 23.