Latest in human rights
China’s growing use of exit bans raises key questions about the country’s commitment to the rule of law and to its obligations under international law.
The good news is that there is a great deal of thoughtful scholarship on the question. The bad news is that this scholarship doesn’t tell us very much.
The diplomatic opening with Pyongyang is the right time to pressure Kim Jong Un on human rights.
President Donald Trump has signaled an interest in human rights in Iran. It’s a shame his National Security Strategy gives such rights short shrift.
On [email protected], Thomas Kellogg examines China's efforts to undermine key U.N. human rights mechanisms.
A review of Joe Renouard, Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
A review of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016).
The Trump administration should use the post-human rights era as an opportunity to promote a different international law agenda: building a strong core of international law dedicated to protecting international peace and security.
A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Samuel Moyn argues that we’ve moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses, rather than a focus on preventing war’s outbreak in the first place.