Law & Order
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How Drones are Changing Colombia’s Conflict
In this video, Crisis Group expert Bram Ebus explains how drones are reshaping Colombia’s armed conflicts, the human cost of…
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From Tampa to The Justice Project: When a Crisis Creates a Civic Response
The Tampa affair was one of them. Isla Hera In August 2001, a Norwegian cargo ship, the MV Tampa, rescued…
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Türkiye: Long Prison Terms for Children Accused of Crime
Uphold Child Justice Standards; Reject Harmful, Ineffective Approach (Berlin) – A new Turkish law that imposes heavy prison sentences on children…
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Syria’s Hardest Transition: From Revenge to Justice
A war does not truly end simply because a government falls or political power changes hands. Fiona Ko Ko Violence…
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Spain: Humanitarian and Rights Crisis in Ceuta
Ensure Adequate Reception Conditions, Access to Information, Asylum (Milan) – The Spanish government and local authorities in its North African…
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Australia: Chinese Government Menaces Uyghur Diaspora
Visitors to Xinjiang Pressed to Monitor Activists, Australia’s Uyghur Language Schools The Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang,…
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Spain: Ensure human rights, dignity and humanity are central in response to exceptional arrival of people in Ceuta
Reacting to the crossing of tens of thousands of people, including children, from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and…
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Indonesia: Environmentalists, Indigenous Leaders Unjustly Prosecuted
Activists Targeted for Protesting Land Grabs, Deforestation, Pollution Indonesian authorities are wrongfully prosecuting environmental defenders who protest deforestation and pollution…
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Vietnam Should Release Ailing Political Prisoners
Immediately Free Can Thi Theu and Other Wrongfully Imprisoned Activists Patricia Gossman Senior Associate Asia Director Can Thi Theu, 64,…
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China’s Police Harass Animal Protection Supporters
Cases of Cruelty Galvanize Country’s Young People Maya Wang Deputy Director, Asia Division Two incidents of videoed cruelty of stray…
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The Age of Invisible Observation
Modern democracies face an enduring question. Jill Dean Singer How can societies protect both their security and their freedom in…
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Five Years On, Hundreds of Cuban Protesters Still Behind Bars
Release Political Prisoners; End Repression Juanita Goebertus Estrada Director, Americas Division Five years ago, on July 11, 2021, Cuba experienced…
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Mercy, Justice and the Fragile Architecture of Public Trust
Liberal democracies are built on an apparent contradiction. Jennifer Doughney They insist that justice must be independent, yet they preserve…
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The First Verdict Is Often About the Process
Long before investigators collect documents or hear witnesses, citizens have already started asking a different question: Jill Dean Singer Can…
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Hong Kong: Beijing Tightens Social Control
6 Years After National Security Law Imposed, Accountability Suffers (Tokyo) – Beijing has restructured Hong Kong’s governance to answer to Party…
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Remembering a Landmark Human Rights Judgment
On this day in 2008, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgments concerning the deaths of Tasos Isaac…
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