Janet Benshoof
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
LEAVE A COMMENT
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…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
LEAVE A COMMENT
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 1, 2017
LEAVE A COMMENT
As the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq crumbles, assessments begin to emerge of the damage left in its wake by its cultural nihilism and harsh sectarian absolutism designed to remake an Arab society. The human costs have been…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council, Terrorism, Women
LEAVE A COMMENT
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 30, 2015
LEAVE A COMMENT
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
LEAVE A COMMENT
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 8, 2013
LEAVE A COMMENT
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…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
LEAVE A COMMENT
THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR
