Kathryn Sikkink

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Internally displaced people, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, June 2023. Tiksa Negeri / Reuters

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In November 2022, the Ethiopian government signed a cease-fire with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The international community hailed the agreement as a possible turning point: the TPLF and Addis Ababa, along with smaller militias and Eritrean forces, had been fighting outright for two years; during this time, up to 600,000 people died—some directly from violence and others after losing access to clean water, food, and medical care. More than two million people were displaced from their homes, and every actor in the conflict was accused of war crimes, including mass killings, sexual violence, enforced starvation, and the destruction of educational and medical facilities.…  Seguir leyendo »

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking on a screen, Sevastopol, Crimea, February 2023. Alexey Pavlishak / Reuters

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As Ukrainian forces aim at a major counteroffensive against Russia, the issue of collaborators, especially in Russian-occupied areas, has drawn renewed attention. If Kyiv successfully regains significant territory, as it did in the fall of 2022, it will have to decide what to do with people in those areas who worked with or otherwise assisted Russian occupation authorities and forces in their repression of local populations and propaganda. Since the start of its illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Russia has been actively relying on collaborators to establish its control over the occupied territories, get information about military targets, help crush dissent and spread propaganda in occupied areas, and sabotage Ukrainian democracy from within, for example by infiltrating Ukrainian state institutions to assist Moscow’s aggressive agenda.…  Seguir leyendo »

La bandera de las Naciones Unidas. Credit Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters

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A medida que estalla la crisis del coronavirus en todo el mundo, la institución internacional más poderosa del mundo, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU (CSNU), se tambalea.

El secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, António Guterres, ha pedido un alto al fuego global y ha descrito a la pandemia como la prueba más importante que las Naciones Unidas ha enfrentado desde su creación. La Asamblea General de la ONU aprobó una resolución en la que insta a una respuesta multilateral coordinada y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) está salvando vidas al movilizar científicos, coordinando investigaciones y brindando información y atención urgentes a las poblaciones en riesgo.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Time is running out for former government officials accused of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity. In the past few months, the final Serbian war-crimes fugitives were extradited to The Hague, the trial of the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, began in Cairo, and the International Criminal Court opened hearings on the post-election violence that plagued Kenya in 2007-8.

These events have provoked a chorus of trial skeptics, who contend that the threat of prosecution undermines democracy, exacerbates conflict and could lead to greater human rights violations.

Critics argue that the threat of prosecution leads dictators like Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan to entrench themselves in power rather than negotiate a transition to democracy.…  Seguir leyendo »