Treaties

A politically expedient "fix" would sideline citizens, including those who fought to open the system via the European Court of Human Rights.

Before leaving his post as Senior Legal Advisor to the State Department, Harold Hongju Koh penned a strongly-worded criticism of President Biden’s pandemic border policy and…

While it contains laudable provisions, it is silent on certain fundamental issues, and some clauses set out the lowest common denominator.

It tells other governments that they may not obtain retroactive impunity for their crimes by withdrawing from the ICC treaty.

The US absence at the table is more perplexing than ever, considering how these issues will define maritime governance in the 21st century.

The answer is to fully enact international criminal law at the national level and to provide for its maximum reach.

It is a matter of historical curiosity, and it's time for the UN to reunite genocide with its genus by concluding a parallel treaty.

Crimes against humanity is the only international crime not governed by its own treaty. It's time to formally recognize such heinous conduct.

Such a convention could dispel the notion that only genocide deserves international sanction and attention.

A majority of the approximately 72,000 detainees from 57 countries are children, and the militant group is targeting youths for recruitment.

First proposed by Russia, this dangerous proposal has gained enough support at the United Nations for negotiations to begin early next year.

The prohibition on torture is absolute. The government’s commitment to upholding it must be too.