U.N. Sexual Assault Investigations Die in Darkness / Foreign Policy
On Feb. 26, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, reiterating his “commitment to zero tolerance of sexual harassment,” unveiled a new hotline for handling such complaints at the…
The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out / Foreign Policy
Out in New York Harbor in 1903, the bronze plaque with Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus” was affixed to the Statue of Liberty. It’s the…
There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been / Foreign Policy
As you climb the mountains high above Srebrenica, in the far east of Bosnia-Herzegovina, oak and beech trees become mixed with firs, pines, and spruce. It…
What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo / Foreign Policy
It was in a sickly green, fluorescent-lit meeting room in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a couple of years ago that someone…
Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing. / Foreign Policy
In 20 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reports of mass rape have become depressingly commonplace — and so has the utter…
When War and Weather Conspire / Foreign Policy
A swamp is a bad place to live in tents. Mud turns to rivulets or dirty streams when rains come, breeding mosquitoes and the diseases they…