International Crisis Group 1
Sep 19, 2016
Lebanon Needs Help to Cope With Huge Refugee Influx
Lebanon, a small country whose population hovered around four million, has gained an astounding million and a half more residents in...
Newsweek
Sep 17, 2016
Amal Clooney Says the UN Has Failed Yazidi Women
More than 3,000 Yazidi women and girls remain in ISIS sexual enslavement. Credit: Independent.co.uk Amal Clooney Criticizes World...
International Crisis Group 1
Aug 31, 2016
Tracking Conflict Worldwide - August 2016
Global Overview AUGUST 2016 The month saw Yemen’s peace talks collapse with violence there intensifying, and the Syrian conflict escalate...
Genocide Watch
Aug 8, 2016
UN human rights chief deplores mass executions in Iran
The United Nations human rights chief today deplored the execution of 20 people in Iran this week for purported terrorism-related...
Foreign Policy
Aug 2, 2016
Suspected Chlorine Gas Attack in Syria
A Syrian civil rescue organization said on Tuesday that a helicopter had dropped two barrels of toxic gas over a town close to where a...
International Crisis Group 1
Jun 23, 2016
Seizing the Moment: From Early Warning to Early Action
Executive Summary After a period of relative calm, an upsurge of crises is testing the international system, pitting major powers and...
The Guardian
Apr 14, 2016
Qatar: FIFA Faces ‘tough decision’ Over World Cup if Human Rights Abuses Continue
Image: Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers building the infrastructure to host the 2022 tournament has come under the spotlight....
Genocide Watch
Apr 13, 2016
Iran: U.S. Frowns on New Sanctions by Congress After Missile Test
Image: Missile test, retrieved from Bloomberg article. A top Treasury Department official argued against imposing new legislative...
Genocide Watch
Apr 12, 2016
Podcast: We’ve Said It – Now What? Genocide in the Middle East
For the full voice podcast please visit the Federalist Society . After much prodding from human rights advocates and congressional...
New York Times 1
Apr 12, 2016
Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis
By Bono I’VE recently returned from the Middle East and East Africa, where I visited a number of refugee camps — car parks of humanity. I...
New York Times 1
Apr 7, 2016
Amnesty International: Executions Highest in 25 Years,
Despite a growing repudiation of the death penalty by governments around the world, at least 1,634 people were executed last year, the...
The New Yorker
Apr 3, 2016
The Assad Files: Capturing the top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and k
Some half a million people have been killed in Syria’s civil war. An additional five million have fled, emptying the country. CREDIT...
