Treaties

The Human Rights Council should build on the documentation and advocacy NGOs have done over the years to encourage accountability for gross violations.

The future of European Human Rights Court's jurisdiction and the future of States' duty to investigate civilian casualties in wartime.

Whether the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becomes a problem for NATO is entirely up to the allies.

Bilateral and multilateral mechanisms are disintegrating amid tech advances, and “grey zones” below military conflict thresholds are ripe for exploitation.

The Biden administration must create a system in which human rights and democracy policymaking is embedded and integrated in its decision-making machinery.

The Biden administration should use the March gathering to highlight policies or programs to advance gender equality at home and abroad.

The US has a historic opportunity to return to the country of its greatest post-Cold War triumph and mark its own homecoming to the international community.

This article is cross-posted at Lawfare.   In late October, the United States and Sudan reportedly signed a bilateral agreement “to resolve claims arising from the 1998…

On October 24, 2020, following Honduras’ ratification, the UN announced the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) would enter into force on January 22, 2021. Accompanying…

Whether informally quarantined in camps or formally confined in overcrowded detention centers, refugees and migrants in detention are extraordinarily vulnerable in a pandemic.…

For too long, too many people in the U.S. military, in government, and in the general public have not fully contemplated how disastrous using nuclear weapons was and could be.…

[Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series, COVID and International Law. All articles in the series can be found here.] COVID-19 continues to grow at…