United Nations (UN)

This is Part 2 of a conversation with Fionnuala Ni Aoláin who recently served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism.

Charges against a Syrian man accused of committing atrocity crimes could set important legal precedents for future cases in the Netherlands.

Perhaps no one is better equipped to consider the impact of counterterrorism on human rights than Fionnuala Ní Aoláin. This is Part 1 of a special two-part conversation.

A UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, US airstrikes in Syria and Article 51 implications, ICJ elections, and more.

While the Draft Articles include a provision for enslavement, the slave trade and enslavement are distinct international crimes that should be enumerated as crimes against humanity.

A response to an article published on how military campaigns can never be rendered disproportionate by the total harm inflicted on civilians.

Top experts reflect on what the Biden administration's new executive order means for the future of AI and efforts to regulate it.

Whether the magnitude of State responses to terror is ethical and wise goes beyond determinations of legal compliance.

States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.

Civil society is calling on States to apply a gender-competent, survivor-centric, and intersectional lens to a new convention on crimes against humanity.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

An update on the U.N. General Assembly's Sixth Committee session in October, and what to expect for a proposed crimes against humanity treaty.