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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.
A person types on a laptop. Translucent icons litter the image to represent cybersecurity.

CTRL+HALT+Defeat: State-Sponsored Surveillance and the Suppression of Dissent

A new lawsuit in Israeli court seeks accountability for the export of malicious spyware used for digital surveillance of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents.…
Honduran father Victor walks with his daughter Katie near Metropolitan Detention Center, shortly after he was released on bond from six months in ICE custody, on October 2, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

Arbitrary Detention of Asylum Seekers Perpetuates the Torture of Family Separation

Abitrary detention of asylum seekers - itself a violation of international human rights law - must be ended in order to resolve the horror of family separation at the border.
Marines raise guns to enter a building.

Human Rights Law and U.S. Military Operations in Foreign Countries: The Prohibition on Arbitrary Deprivation of Life

The view that the U.S. government does not accept that international human rights law applies to US activities in foreign countries is mistaken., writes Goodman. The Department…
A Syrian woman hangs laundry in Raqa in the midst of collapsing buildings.

General Comment 36: A Missed Opportunity?

General Comment 36 on the human right to life under article 6 of the ICCPR adopts the view that both international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (IHRL) apply during…
Murdered women’s shoes are seen during a demonstration demanding justice for the 5.929 women killed in the past 15 years in Honduras, in the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women which was commemorated on the eve worldwide, in Tegucigalpa, on November 26, 2018.

Gendered Security and the Right to Life: Analysis of UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment

UN human rights body goes far in recognizing how gender and women's rights intersect with (national) security issues, but far enough?
A general view taken on September 10, 2018 during the opening day of the 39th UN Council of Human Rights at the UN Offices in Geneva.

Targeted Killing and the Right to Life: A Structural Framework

Shaheed Fatima Q.C., analyzes the recently issued "General Comment 36" of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which sets forth a legal framework under human rights law for…
Numerous national flags are seen in front of the United Nations Office (UNOG) on June 8, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Human Rights, Deprivation of Life and National Security: Q&A with Christof Heyns and Yuval Shany on General Comment 36

In a Q&A with Ryan Goodman, Christof Heyns and Yuval Shany, members of the UN Human Rights Committee, examine the national security implications of General Comment 36 -- the Committee’s…

Executive (Dis)order and Refugees—The Trump Policy’s Blindness to International Law

President Trump says that his recent executive order on immigration is required by national security concerns.  More specifically, he has said that its goal is to screen out “radical…
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International Justice Day Round-Up III: Salvadoran Amnesty Law, Germany Apologizes to Namibia over Genocide, Corporate Criminality, and Colombia Ceasefire

This is Part III of an international criminal justice round-up covering ten of the top developments in the field this spring and summer. Part I is here and covers the Habré case,…
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The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Geographical Scope of Human Rights Law

On January 21, a British investigation concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died…
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On Human Rights Day, One Year On: No Apology and No Accountability for US Torture

A year ago yesterday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a redacted version of the executive summary of its exhaustive report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation…
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