Dan Plesch
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
It is widely believed that the Allied powers were in the dark about the “final solution” — the Nazi campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews — until the discovery of the death camps, strewn with corpses and emaciated inmates, at…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 21, 2016
With a cease-fire in Syria collapsing around him and bombs destroying precious relief supplies intended for the hungry, traumatized survivors of relentless government attacks on the once grand city of Aleppo, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his last…
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 9, 2015
The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the United Nations Charter should draw attention to the 1942-45 United Nations Alliance that gave rise to the world body and the underpinnings of contemporary global governance. While anniversaries…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Shanti Sattler
- • May 28, 2014
LONDON — Crimes of sexual violence consistently result from large-scale conflict and war around the world. Rape and enforced prostitution, among other gender-based crimes, are used as a tool to enhance violence and domination and to spread fear among…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Sierra Ortega
- • July 24, 2013
The International Criminal Court has just acquired a huge trove of nearly all the unrestricted records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and is now making them available to the public. The records include more than 2,240 documents,…
- Categories: Asia, ICC, International Justice, Women
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