The Global Atlas

What with all the discussion in recent weeks of Syria, Iran, and the situation in the Middle East in general, I think I speak on behalf of m...

On April 15, 2013, shock hit me as I sat at work reading 140 unbelievable characters on Twitter. Tweets claiming that a bomb had gone off a...

Two weeks ago, President Obama was carefully weighing his options for a U.S. response to allegations that the Syrian government had used c...

It is a civil war (or rather a series of them) that has led to the deaths of 5.4 million people since 1998. More than 2.6 million people ar...

Being back in Geneva for the 24 th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has given me a fresh perspective on the work of human righ...