Human Rights

While European Union membership would be beneficial to Serbia as a whole, it may not serve the interests of the country’s ruling elites.

For the survivors of atrocities, justice may mean something very different from the remote procedures of the ICC. How can international systems of accountability center local justice?

UN entities that support and enable counterterrorism, including in cooperation with the Kingdom, must ensure such abuses end.

The repeated violations of fundamental rights and principles corrode the very foundations of the democracy Poland fought so hard to win.

With little fanfare, the Trump administration participated in a review of the United States’ human rights record on Nov. 9. In a rare moment of engagement with United Nations…

"A simple return to an imagined world of pre-Trump human rights is not enough."

Refugee crises often seem to emerge out of nowhere. All of a sudden, people are streaming across borders, making the excruciating choice that is no choice at all: to flee home…

Any other challenge will be exponentially harder to address as long as authoritarian leaders and the militarized systems that support them have free rein.

U.S. corporations, including Nestle and Cargill, may face massive liability under the Alien Tort Statute for aiding and abetting slavery abroad. But does the ATS support such liability?…

Proponents risk legitimizing abusive laws and procedures and undermining broader efforts to advance equality and human rights protection for women.

The threat of liability under the Alien Tort Statute (such as the Nestlé/Cargill suit) costs businesses money – that's just cold economic reality. Or is it? Amici in the case,…

As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with corporate immunity for human rights abuses abroad, they may find a parallel Canadian case – in which the Supreme Court of Canada opened…