The legal norm has been manipulated and forgotten. But today it is needed more than ever ...

On July 23, a debate concerning the Responsibility to Protect took place in front of the General Asssembly of the United Nations. The responsibility to protect (R2P) is a notion agreed to by world ...

For the past two years, the world has stood by and watched as the Assad regime waged open and brutal war against its own citizens in Syria. Reports of torture, mass murder, civilian targeting, and the ...

Buildings collapse in Aleppo after alleged Assad forces shelling, August 2013. Demotix/Halabi Lens. All rights reserved. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine ...

Salil Tripathi, B.S. Chimni and Gareth Evans address the friction between sovereignty, the morality of responding to atrocities in other countries, and the fears of western imperialism. But to ...

Rebels captured and executed Muammar el-Qaddafi in late October 2011. This tarnished the human rights advance of the year: the international decision to protect Libyans from their 69-year-old dictator ...

Since 1st February 2021, Myanmar is witnessing political turmoil due to a military coup taking control of the government and detaining the democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the ...

Rosa Brooks has a fascinating argument in Foreign Policy which ties human rights campaigners’ effective erosion of Westphalian sovereignty over the past 20 years with President Obama’s expanded drone ...

The Palestinian bid for statehood and traffic congestion weren’t the only things going on in New York last week as the 66th U.N. General Assembly convened. One of the issues privately discussed by ...

Delegations pose for a family photo during the "Friends of Libya" conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Starting third from left, front row, are Mustafa Abdel Jalil and Mahmoud Jibril, ...