Local Voices

The United Nations must do better in exercising strategic leadership in atrocity crimes prevention and response.

Washington Senior Editor Viola Gienger interviewed Oleksandra Matviichuk about her organization's documentation of grave crimes in Ukraine.

Syrian policymakers should pursue a locally-driven and incremental approach to constitutionalism for a more cohesive and just future.

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.

A new protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights obligates governments to ensure the fundamental rights of older people.

The conflict has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, with estimates of 15,000 killed and more than 20,000 injured.

Ukraine must balance its security interests while ensuring respect for international obligation in responding to Russia's "passportization."

With humanitarian funding decreasing and needs growing, cholera in a camp for displaced people illustrates the dire conditions.

Unfocused efforts to break the logjam over human rights and diplomatic recognition raise questions about how to move forward.

Unless parties are willing to come to the table, there is no pathway from war toward restoring civilian rule and a democratic transition.

The Taliban appear set to attend, in a UN capitulation to their demands to exclude Afghan women and civil society.

Prosecutors allege that Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s former defense minister, and Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, directed missile strikes…