Human Rights

Human Rights after Hitler

Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretc

Keeping Faith with Human Rights

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

The Sacredness of the Person

What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future?

Refugee Rights

Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa.

For All Peoples and All Nations

In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture.

Breaking Silence

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filártiga was taken from his family home in Asunción, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police.

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs

Wartime Sexual Violence

Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long history of silence and nonrecognition.

Ethics Beyond War's End

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war's settlement and its aftermath?