The following article was written by guest author Simon Bagshaw, who is a Senior Policy Advisor on the protection of civilians in armed conflict with

This is the third year that civil society, Member States, and the UN Secretariat, have joined together to highlight the importance of protection of ci

CIVIC and 21 civil society organizations have issued a joint statement calling on members of the UN Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, and al

Peacekeeping missions often struggle to acquire the resources they need to accomplish the growing range of tasks they are mandated to perform. In this

Over the last decade, community militias have played key roles in the conflict in northeast Nigeria, protecting civilians from a range of threats incl

By Dan Mahanty March feels like a decade and a thousand COVID-19 news cycles ago, so you could be forgiven for having missed the news that on Mar

It has been four weeks since the first COVID-19 case was registered in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities have moved rapidly and robustly to respond t

What the Military Can Do to Better Protect Civilians in Conflict Countries Affected by COVID-19 From China to Italy, from France to South Africa, and

On March 12, 2020, the mandate of the UN peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was renewed for one year. The new mandate—outlining what tasks t

By Annie Shiel and Dan Mahanty On March 3, the House Rules Committee held a rare bipartisan hearing on the erosion of congressional checks and balance