The House We Built: How the United States Walked Away from Decades of Accountability

As the world turns inward, nationalistic perspectives are on the rise. It feels like 1930, where the international order laid out in the Versailles Treaty, was about to be turned upside down. Today, something terrible is lurking around the corner, sitting in the shadows of anarchy and fascism. The rule of law tentatively steps forward afraid of what comes next. In this kaleidoscopic age, we do not know. .

The Eleventh Chautauqua Declaration 

Alberto Mora, American Bar Association, presided over the 11th Chautauqua Declaration. The event culminated the 12th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs held at Chautauqua Institution. (Note: the 10th IHLD was held at Nuremberg and it's statement was called the Nuremberg Declaration). Among the signing prosecutors were: Brenda J. Hollis of Sierra Leone Tribunal, Douglas Stringer, ICTY, David Crane, Sierra Leone Tribunal and Fabricio Guariglia of the ICC.

UN Web TV - The Situation In Syria

Speakers: His Excellency Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations; Professor David M. Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; and Dr. Stuart J. Hamilton, forensic pathologist 

SJAC Weekly Newsletter

Saving Lives With Tech Amid Syria's
​Endless Civil War

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The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.

Syrian organizations deplore the Syrian regime's assumption of the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament

Despite allegedly carrying out numerous deadly chemical weapons attacks, Syria will take over the presidency of the UN’s Conference on Disarmament as a result of an automatic rotation between member states. 

MEB Weekly Newsletter

The Fate Of Douma City:
How It Started & Where Will It End?

On April 7th 2018, reports started surfacing that civilians were coming into Syrian hospitals displaying symptoms of a chemical attack. Shortly after, video and pictures surfaced showing tens of dead bodies of women and children, along with scenes of families suffocated in bunkers that became gas chambers after filling up with chlorine gas. Final death tolls reported 55 civilians dead and at least 1,000 injured.​

Regime Forces Have Dropped Nearly 70,000 Barrel Bombs In Syria

Since the start of the civil war in Syria, Regime Forces have ruthlessly bombed civilians, dropping nearly 70,000 barrel bombs since July 2012. Despite mounting evidence,  the international community has not done enough to stop these bombings.
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