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National Security at the United Nations This Week
Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Yemen Group of Experts’ Report Highlights Need to Halt Arms Sales
The UN Group of Experts’ report on Yemen shows that the U.S (and its allies) have helped create a humanitarian disaster in Yemen and have a duty to help end it, starting by immediately…
France’s Major Statement on International Law and Cyber: An Assessment
Leading expert on international law and cyberspace assesses major new position staked out by French government.
National Security at the United Nations This Week
New U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft taking her UN seat, Russia’s use of force, Israel’s annexation plans, hope for U.S. talks with Iran, U.K. austerity, and more. The latest in…
The UN Report and Indiscriminate Attacks in Yemen
The UN Group makes a number of important legal findings, a leading international humanitarian law expert discusses.
The UN Yemen Report and Siege Warfare
Following the UN Human Rights Council report on Yemen, experts provide detailed analysis of how international humanitarian law rules on starvation, proportionality, and precautions…
Introduction to Just Security Series on UN Yemen Report
We're launching a series by legal experts discussing a major UN report on the Yemen War.
Questions on Legality of Israeli Strikes in Iraq and Lebanon
A flurry of news reports during the final week of August detailed recent Israeli air strikes against Iranian affiliated groups in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. The Washington Post…
National Security at the United Nations This Week
A UN report finds potential complicity in Yemen war crimes by the US, France, & Britain; the IAEA reports further crumbling of the Iran Nuclear Deal; the UN warns of a risk of…
Yemen: Where Coalitions Come to Die
Yemen is the cemetery of invaders, or so the ancient proverb goes, and today it is certainly the burial ground of foreign military coalitions.
Act Now to Celebrate the U.N. Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020
The United Nations Security Council took a historic step in October 2000 to promote the role of women in global peace and security. But if we want to be in a position to truly…
A Post-Mortem on UN Security Council Resolution 2482 on Organized Crime and Counter-Terrorism
The creeping conflation of armed conflict, terrorism and organized crime does not lend legal clarity to complex legal and political challenges. In the long run, it may, in fact,…