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The publication of the American State Department's voluminous annual 'Country Reports on Human Rights Practices' has attracted even more scrutiny than usual. Human-rights activists have been poring over the document [...]

David Rieff, a freelance writer, is the co-editor, with Roy Gutman, of War Crimes: What the Public Should Know (Norton) and is currently completing a book on humanitarian aid. When [...]

Ronald Steel's most recent books are In Love With Night: The American Romance With Robert Kennedy (Simon & Schuster) and Temptations of a Superpower (Harvard). All during the cold war [...]

Mary Kaldor is director of the Global Civil Society program at the London School of Economics and author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (Stanford). [...]

Mahmood Mamdani, a Ugandan citizen, is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He received his doctorate from Harvard and has [...]

Holly Burkhalter has more than twenty years' experience in the human rights field. She is currently advocacy director of Physicians for Human Rights and previously worked for Human Rights Watch. [...]

No one wants to contemplate what would happen if America were to send its soldiers into a situation that they were unprepared to meet. We have done that more than [...]

Rome--From the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia on March 24 the Vatican objected to the undeclared air war on Serbia. The Pope told the member of the Parliamentary Assembly […]

WASHINGTON * By the second week of September, the U.S. Congress will likely vote on whether to authorize President Barack Obama to make a military strike against forces loyal to [...]

Gradually but inexorably, the pressure is building for U.S. military intervention in Haiti. It comes from such influential members of Congress as Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat, a leading light [...]

As NATO bombs continue to fall over Libya, some challenge the air campaign. A new concept in international relations, 'the responsibility to protect,' was a key concern of the U.N. [...]

The images are horrible: Night after night on the network news, morning after morning on newspaper front pages, the emaciated victims of famine in Somalia stare dully into the camera [...]