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Rising Democracies Take on Russia and China
The Security Council’s recent failure to condemn Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown in Syria after months of attacks against unarmed civilians would suggest the case is hopeless. Russia and China...
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The Role of the UN Human Rights System, International Norms and the...
Event Information February 23, 201212:30 PM - 2:00 PM ESTAdministration Building Conference Room Qatar UniversityDoha, Qatar On February 23, 2012, the Brookings Doha Center and Qatar University...
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The Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Syria
As the violence in Syria drags into its twelfth month, there is growing evidence that a humanitarian disaster is taking place and there are painfully few options for effective response. More than...
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Who Will Save Syria?
The Syrian uprising began nearly a year ago, and despite renewed international efforts, the regime has intensified the killing. The death toll, approaching 8,000, is now five times what it was in...
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Protecting People in Cities: The Disturbing Case of Haiti
Note: Edited version to be published by Disasters (Overseas Development Institute and Blackwell Publishing) Introduction Disaster struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 in the form of a 7.0 earthquake which...
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What Assad Wants in Syria: Unsanctioned International Military Action
It is increasingly clear that Bashar al-Assad and his brother, Maher, are following their father’s playbook from the Hama massacre of 1982. In that year, days of heavy bombardment of residential areas...
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American-Muslim Relations Can Improve
The Assad regime’s violent crackdown on the Syrian opposition has led to a surprising development: The United States and segments of the Islamic world are now working together in the United Nations...
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Human Rights Progress In North Korea: Is It Possible?
This article was published in 38 North and the original article can be viewed here. Despite hopes, even predictions that Kim Jong Il’s death might usher in progress on human rights in North Korea, no...
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Sri Lanka's Day of Reckoning
At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Sri Lankan and U.S. governments are facing off this week over a resolution that the U.S. has proposed but neither side wanted. Sri Lanka's...
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Syrian Government Agrees To Withdraw Forces
Editor's Note: United Nations Peace Envoy Kofi Annan announced April 10, 2012 as the date the Syrian government has agreed to end its assault and pull troops from major cities. Tamara Cofman Wittes...
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Addressing the Legal Gaps in Climate Change Migration, Displacement and...
Event Information April 3, 201210:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Register for the EventLarge numbers of people are expected to...
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The Options in Syria
The April 10 deadline for Syrian forces to withdraw from major cities set by Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League special envoy for Syria, appears to have come and gone with little change on...
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Options for U.S. Policy in Syria
Editor's Note: On April 19, 2012, Tamara Cofman Wittes offered the following remarks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Wittes discussed policy options for the United States in Syria. Mr....
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The Syrian Conflict and the International Alliance Race
Unrest in Syria has been ongoing for the past 13 months. It was initiated by 15 kids in the southwestern city of Deraa, who were inspired by the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings and openly mocked the...
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Annan’s Mission Impossible in Syria
The world is learning hard lessons in Syria. The United States has already admitted that the mission of UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan is likely to fail, and U.S. Secretary of State...
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Shaming Russia for Arming Assad Won’t Help End Syria’s Civil War
Secretary of State Clinton revealed Tuesday that Russia is sending helicopter gunships to Syria and called Moscow’s claims that its arms are not used against Syrian civilians “patently untrue.”...
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Taiwan’s UN Dilemma: To Be or Not to Be
Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations (UN) or its suborganizations, but it aspires to participate. China opposes this. It argues, correctly, that only sovereign states can enjoy membership in...
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Catalysts for Change : How the UN's Independent Experts Promote Human Rights
Brookings Institution Press 2012 225pp. Catalysts for Change examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations’ most important human rights mechanisms—the collection of independent...
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The Shortcomings of Annan’s "Plan B" in Syria
Will Kofi Annan’s latest proposal for a political transition end the conflict in Syria? The short answer is no, not in its current form. Syria is now, in the words of Bashar al-Assad, in a “state of...
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Afghan National Security Forces: A Glass 55% Full
Editor's Note: In his June 29, 2012 testimony before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Michael O'Hanlon assesses how well the Afghan National Security Forces...
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