Genocide Convention

• May 1, 2021

Anastasia Dragon Nezeriotis — Anne to her colleagues and friends — died in Clearwater, Fla., 25 years ago last month. A native of Lynn, Mass., she was a teacher at Lynn English High School, her obituary said. She married George Nezeriotis in 1957, but before all that she had a front-row role in the …

General Assembly, Human Rights, UN Diplomats, WORLDVIEWS

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WORLDVIEWS

Thank You, United Nations, for Helping Victims of Nazi Experiments

Bertrand Ramcharan

• May 17, 2018

As World War II ended and the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded before a stunned humanity, the victims, their families and people of good will sought to construct a new world order of justice grounded in recognition of inalienable human rights. Prof. Hersch Lauterpacht made the case for an International Bill of Rights, the …

Human Rights, International Justice

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BOOKS

The Secret Work on War-Crime Trials Before Nuremberg

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 the end of World War II. Yet Russia, Britain and the United States publicly declared …

BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice

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WORLDVIEWS

One Year Later, the World Must Stop Boko Haram Genocide

Janet Benshoof

• April 16, 2015

It was a year ago this week that the terrorist group Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) not long ago, carried out a late-night abduction of 276 girls from their boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, loading them into trucks and disappearing into the dense forest. The …