Global Justice Center
- Opinion by Akila Radhakrishnan
- • August 10, 2018
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It has been four years since ISIS launched its genocidal assault on the Yazidi community in the Middle East. ISIS fighters have faced terrorism charges in Iraq and abroad, yet not a single ISIS fighter has been prosecuted for, much …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped the …
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 24, 2017
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Just days after a global outpouring of support for a movement demanding protection for the rights of women and other advances promoted by civil society, Donald Trump has fully turned back the clock. On Jan. 23, with a stroke of …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 1, 2016
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Grim images from the small world of children are multiplying. Little bodies adrift in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Uncomprehending faces pressed against wire fences and barricades in Europe from the Balkans to the French port of Calais. At least …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Middle East
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 30, 2015
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In 1973, Jesse Helms, a newly elected United States senator and an ideologue contemptuous of the United Nations, dismissive of international treaties and completely devoid of compassion for the world’s poor, put his name on an amendment to the landmark …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 8, 2013
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The newest United Nations Security Council resolution that continues to build a stronger framework to prevent and end sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations sends a strong signal that such offenses will be punished as war crimes under international …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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