Choosing Our Words With Care
VERONIQUE LERCH
Continuing our series of short think pieces on the theme ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Véronique Lerch discusses the use of war metaphors during the pandemic.
Hunger as a Weapon of War
VITO TODESCHINI
Starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance in contemporary conflicts
The safeguard of journalist source protection in times of war
SIMON LEVETT
The journalist and source relationship and the right to receive information
Human rights through the lens: Locating the dignity of the vulnerable subjects of atrocity photographs
TAIF ALKHUDARY
Understanding the relationship between dignity and vulnerability through the eye of the camera
Interview with Prof. Manfred Nowak
ANGELA MELCHIORRE
We have to be more self-confident, skilful and proactive to defend human rights in times of ‘evil forces’.
The Colombian Peace Deal: War is dying but peace has not yet been born
JORGE ENRIQUE FORERO and SARA TUFANO
The roots of the Colombian conflict and how the Peace Agreement addresses them
On Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: The Case of Wartime Male Rape
ELLEN GORRIS
Three challenges to the exclusive focus on women and girls as victims of conflict-related sexual violence
Is the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2235 a positive step towards accountability in the conflict in Syria?
AURIANNE BOTTE
Assessing whether the Joint Investigative Mechanism on the use of chemical weapons in Syria could be a first step towards accountability for crimes against humanity and war crimes
Approving force without authorising it: UN Security Council resolution 2249 on the fight against ISIL
VITO TODESCHINI
The resolution gives political support to military action against ISIS, yet fails to provide States with a mandate to use force
The Second Opportunity: Education, Peacebuilding, and Transformative Justice in Colombia
SAM UNDERWOOD
The transformative capacity of conflict-sensitive education in the words of Colombian teachers, students and educationalists
Respect for international legality and the renewed centrality of the United Nations: the only alternative to war
MARCO MASCIA
ANTONIO PAPISCA
Read why the main road to peace is to be walked with initiatives of real disarmament and by putting into operation the collective security system as envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations
