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Serbia’s Move to Cancel EuroPride Shows How Vučić Plays Off West Against Russia and His Base
Unrestrained and under pressure from his far-right base, his anti-Western and anti-human rights decisions will only become more extreme.

Expanding Justice for Gender-Based Crimes with a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity
Such a legal framework could be transformative for so many who have been left out or on the margins of existing mechanisms, including women.

Making Inclusive Uniform Service More Resilient through Congressional Support
Ensuring transgender individuals can serve their country in uniform will improve military readiness and resilience in recruitment and retention.

Pompeo’s “Rights Commission” is Worse Than Feared: Part I
Human rights groups have sued to shut it down. A study of its hearings shows its anti-rights leanings are even worse than feared.

Trump’s “Unalienable Rights” Commission Likely to Promote Anti-Rights Agenda
On Monday, we learned who would be serving on the State Department's new "Commission on Unalienable Rights." The track records of the chair and the other members raise even further…

EXCLUSIVE: Draft Charter of Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda
Just Security has obtained the draft Charter for the Commission. Professor Hamilton writes: If the Commission follows the ideological roots of the "natural law" theory it is grounded…

How the Pentagon Made Transgender Rights Disappear
The Pentagon's new limits on transgender military service amount to a ban that is anything but "gender-blind."

The Mattis Transgender Policy Will Go Into Effect Next Friday
Last Tuesday, in response to a government motion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit altered its previous schedule and ordered the Clerk to issue the…

What Now for the Mattis Transgender Policy?
As I predicted here a couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court today unanimously denied the government’s petitions for certiorari before judgment in the “transgender…

Untangling the Issues in the “Transgender in the Military” Litigation
A few weeks ago, the Department of Justice made something of a splash by filing petitions for certiorari “before judgment” in three of the pending cases challenging then-Secretary…

Animus, Not Readiness: Trump & Mattis Move Full Steam Ahead on Unconstitutional Trans Military Ban
While it all started with an early morning tweet (as it so often does), this week President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis both took steps to enshrine Trump’s…

Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed
Just Security recently broke the story that the State Department was considering shuttering or downgrading certain functional offices and Senate-confirmed ambassadorships within…