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The New Crisis in Darfur: What America, the African Union, and the UN Can Do to Stop the Killing

On September 18, 2023 By

Originally published by Foreign Affairs, September 18, 2023.

In 2003, mass atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region shocked the world. A coalition of human rights organizations mobilized in response, accusing […]

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On (Not) Being Arrested by the United Nations

On July 11, 2023 By

Thirty years ago this week, on July 11, 1993 to be precise, a military attorney attached to the UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) instructed that I should be detained.

The […]

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How the International Community is Betraying Tigray—and its Principles

On September 26, 2022 By

Annotating the Official Script

This blog post is a commentary on a press briefing and three documents that reveal the thinking of key international actors regarding the war against Tigray […]

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Standing up for the Victims of Sexual Violence in Tigray

On March 7, 2022 By

On the eve of international women’s day, we are publishing a call from 15 women’s organizations to the United Nations to provide the services so desperately needed by survivors […]

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See No Evil: How the United Nations is Blind to the Famine in Tigray

On September 24, 2021 By

For three months, international estimates of the number of people facing humanitarian emergency or famine in Tigray have not shifted. On July 2, the UN said that 400,000 people […]

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Five Reasons why the UN Security Council needs to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia

On December 14, 2020 By

Today, the UN Security Council members are expected to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.

It’s a matter for UN Security Council urgent business for several reasons.

First, it’s […]

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