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Children dying in a camp in southern Sudan shows the toll as the warring parties willfully obstruct food and other aid.

UN guidance requires States to reconcile claims for religious accommodation with the impact that refusals to provide abortion care and other reproductive health services have on…

Atrocity-prevention systems developed before the spread of new technologies need to more systematically account for their impacts.

Governments and civil society can harness new and established technologies, even while proactively mitigating associated risks.

This fall, a number of States expressed support for the inclusion of various gender justice proposals in a potential future treaty.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has sharpened third states’ obligation to use their leverage now to reverse the trajectory, writes Dannenbaum.

The Advisory Opinion marks an important development in international law. It is therefore disappointing that this development occurs ex cathedra and in a manner that reveals so…

A new protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights obligates governments to ensure the fundamental rights of older people.

The current round of retaliatory strikes between Israel and Iran casts light on Israel's and Iran’s opposing political strategies, which also have significant legal implications…

As formal debates on a proposed crimes against humanity treaty have continued, we have seen in every corner of the globe why this treaty is so desperately needed, not only to prevent…

Following his recommendation would secure the grip of ethnonationalists and those responsible for the “fragile” conditions he laments.

The Summit did not reinvigorate multilateralism. Multilateralism survived, yes, but did not exactly get a new lease on life.