United Nations (UN)

AI's potentials can only be safely and equitably harnessed through respect for international law at the national, regional and global levels.

What stories or topics merited more attention in 2023, with a particular eye toward what might inform law and policy conversations in 2024?

Nearly 200 nations agreed to a historic deal to transition away from fossil fuels in a “just, orderly and equitable manner.”

All reports of hospital attacks and misuse of hospitals must be investigated and those responsible held accountable. In the meantime, urgent action is needed to ensure that more…

COP28 is over. Now comes the hard work of ensuring that each nation follows through with actions to match textual commitments.

A Security Council resolution on funding AU missions risks not only peacekeeping but also UN human rights and civilian protection priorities.

The latest in our weekly series on UN developments at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

The effects of the war in Gaza are rippling across the region, threatening Yemen's fragile truce.

Twenty-five years after the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the usual methods of protection and accountability aren’t working well enough.

The latest in our weekly series on UN developments at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

In a largely symbolic move, UN Secretary-General António Guterres invoked Art. 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in his tenure in a letter to the Security Council on the…

The international community failed 20 years ago to stop mass atrocities and genocide in Darfur, and is now failing again.