• Death and Drugs in Colombia
    Jun 2, 2011
  • Serbia-Kosovo Talks Must Not Forget the Roma
    Apr 4, 2011
    With a little goodwill from both sides the plight of Roma families, who were displaced from Mitrovica in the war and abandoned in lead-contaminated camps, could finally be solved.
  • The Balkans Must Broaden Approach to Human Rights
    Feb 28, 2011
    For many in Europe, the western Balkans still evoke images of the brutal conflicts that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The legacy of those wars continues to shape European Union and US policy toward the region.
  • Georgians in Gali
    Feb 18, 2011
    After almost 19 years since the first exchange of fire in August 1992, the Georgian–Abkhaz conflict remains as far from political resolution as ever.
  • Frozen Out, in the West Bank
    Feb 11, 2011
    The Obama administration's failure to induce Israel to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank has led Western diplomats to worry that the continued settlement expansion may soon push the possibility of a two-state solution over the brink. But the focus on a settlement freeze   should not detract attention from the freeze that Israel does impose - against Palestinians.
  • Commission’s Kosovo Assessment Ignores Migration Abuses
    Nov 14, 2010
    With Brussels increasingly the most influential actor in Kosovo, the European Commission annual progress report is a key benchmark for its performance on human rights.
  • Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera
    Oct 25, 2010
    Amartya Sen famously said that famines do not occur in well-run, democratic countries. The same is almost always true for cholera epidemics.
  • Congo's Civilians Need Protection
    Sep 23, 2010
    "We fled home in 2004 and we haven't been back," a 33-year-old woman I will call Solange told me. "We lived in Kiwanja: there was no assistance so we lived for two years in a church; then we lived for two years in a camp." After soldiers destroyed the camp, they fled to the outskirts of a UN peacekeepers' base. "Now the locals want us to leave. So where should we go?"
  • Slow Progress on Rights in Kosovo
    Feb 24, 2010
    When Kosovo declared independence in February 2008, there was optimism that after almost a decade of drift, greater self-government and a newly energized international presence led by the EU might finally move it in the right direction.
  • A Tamil Tragedy
    Jul 29, 2009
    Today more than 280,000 Tamil civilians displaced from the war zone during the last brutal months of the fighting are locked up in detention camps.