Human Rights

The court did not order a ceasefire, but its finding that Israel is the subject of “plausible” claims that it is in violation of the Genocide Convention is momentous, an international-law expert says.

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley discusses Bernie Sanders’s failed resolution to condition U.S. military aid to Israel, and his visit to the Gaza border.

Physicians for Human Rights Israel issued a report collecting evidence of sexual and gender-based violence. One of its authors lays out their findings.

A historian of the Holocaust examines Israel’s rhetoric and actions in Gaza.

International-law obligations are nonreciprocal: one war crime doesn’t excuse another.

As Hamas militants launched a wave of assaults on Israeli towns and communities, Yoni Asher learned that his wife and two young daughters had been taken captive.

The journalist Fareed Zakaria credits India’s Prime Minister with a strong national economy—and the decay of Indian democracy.

After the P.G.A. Tour commissioner’s craven one-eighty on a Saudi-backed rival, politicians on Capitol Hill, antitrust experts, and human-rights campaigners are justifiably rounding on him.

The country’s annual march for women’s rights was a defiant act of self-assertion that once again sparked panic and condemnation from conservatives.

Rising violence is drawing new attention to the alliance that Benjamin Netanyahu struck with the far right to return to power.

England scored six against Iran in a match that felt heightened by the strange atmosphere in Qatar.

The tournament in Qatar is a moral debacle that will also rivet much of humanity’s attention for the next month.

In her new position at the State Department, Deborah Lipstadt hopes for trickle-down tolerance abroad.

A new report from the Human Rights Office found “widespread arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Uyghyrs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” Some activists think it didn’t go far enough.

For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell.

In Florida, naturally.

Last year, a military junta seized power and imprisoned the country’s civilian leader. A popular resistance movement has been met with brutal force, including the recent execution of four democracy activists.

A plane was on the runway when the European Court of Human Rights interceded. Now Britain may leave the court.

The order to shutter Al Mabani, a notorious jail set up in Libya to detain migrants bound for Europe, might be seen as progress. But it is also an indication of darker aspects of migrant detention.

In Beijing, the inclusion of the cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, whom China identified as of Uyghur heritage, seemed to carry a double message.