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Please join USIP for a conversation with David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), about his work to shed light on growing global trends toward impunity in conflict and the need to reassert protections for civilians and humanitarian aid in conflict, break the cycle of crisis, and strengthen systems of accountability in the international system. The conversation will discuss the IRC’s 2023 Emergency Watchlist, which highlights the 20 countries most at risk of increasing humanitarian need this year and includes many of the conflicts where impunity continues...

In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities say they have documented more than 66,000 war crimes committed by Russian forces. As early as last March, the United States had determined that Russia had committed war crimes in Ukraine. But in a speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 18, Vice President Kamala…

An international push is underway to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and his most senior allies criminally responsible for the war in Ukraine.

An international push is underway to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and his most senior allies criminally responsible for the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials traveled to the United States last week to push for support for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute top-level Russian officials for the crime of aggression.