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The German government needs to do more to address the growing repression in China. Chancellor Olaf Scholz should extend and deepen current efforts to raise the price for serious human rights violations. China presents one of the most difficult foreign policy...

Two years ago, Human Rights Watch analyzed who bears command responsibility for war crimes in Syria’s Idlib province, the one part of the country still controlled by the armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. There, we documented 46 cases in...

The last time a broad alliance was built to oppose a major act of violence – the “global war on terrorism” in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks – it was a human rights disaster. Following the U.S. example, governments worldwide learned that pledging...

We have already seen indiscriminate use of cluster munitions, and the firing of ballistic missiles and rocket artillery As Russian forces invading Ukraine confront stronger and more effective resistance than the Kremlin probably anticipated, the big question...

President Joe Biden delivers this year’s State of the Union Address on March 1 during a particularly precarious moment for the United States and the world. The United States must confront the entrenchment of authoritarianism, hold together alliances in the face of an...

The Art of Diplomacy - 75+ Views Behind the Scenes of World Politics A new book, conceived on the occasion of Wolfgang Ischinger’s 75th birthday and edited by Tobias Bunde and Benedikt Franke, brings together a stellar group of contributors who investigate myriad...

Autocrats are on the defensive as popular protests mount—but democracy’s fate depends on leaders delivering results. The conventional wisdom these days is that autocracy is ascendant and democracy is on the decline. But the superficial appeal of the rise-of-autocracy...

Can international human rights and humanitarian law survive when the major powers ignore it? That is the question posed by Russian forces’ widespread summary executions and indiscriminate bombardment of civilians in Ukraine. In the case of Ukraine, at least, many...