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"When the votes are cast in the General Assembly this week, women’s rights advocates around the world will be watching States closely."

After mass nonviolent protests, look out for arrests of opponents, prison releases of Islamists, and actions by a key paramilitary unit.

The US has regained a seat on the HRC - but its recent absence has weakened the human rights landscape overall.

The Global Counterterrorism Forum's new "toolkit" ignores input, tracks US practice to dangerously expand the unaccountable post-9/11 system.

Key indicators to measure the prospect for democracy to survive the current crisis — from scale of street protests to army's withstanding defections to specific words chosen…

Separatist provocations pose the greatest danger to the country's peace and cohesion since the accords were forged 26 years ago.

A Security Council divided over rights violations by Russian paramilitaries must maintain civilian protection as a priority.

India will offer ad hoc emergency visas to Afghan refugees but lacks any domestic law to protect asylum seekers long term.

The last Taliban government imposed restrictions on registration and operation of NGOs. What can we expect from this Taliban government?

Such a convention could help dispel a culture of impunity by reaffirming the gravity of such atrocities and filling gaps left by the Rome Statute.

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.