Under international law, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has a mandate to protect refugees. Every state party to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees is also obliged to guarantee basic economic freedoms and freedom of movement to refugees within their borders. Non-refoulement--the right not to...

Typically regarded as the paragon of humanitarianism, refugee camps are in fact one of the biggest stains on the conscience of the international community.

With the UN-mandated imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya, President Obama has now thrust us into our third Mideast shooting war.

Much could be done now to shift that balance against the regime--and hasten the end of Gaddafi’s massacres--without escalating foreign military involvement and perhaps even without supplying weapons to the opposition.

There are ways to combat the troubling accountability gap in refugee protection in the developing world.

The two imprisoned American journalists were trying to tell an important story.

Humanitarianism can cause political harm by distorting incentives and weakening structures of accountability.

Putting the treaty against counterfeit medicines under the auspices of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is on balance with a poor idea. WHO is, for now, still the best institution under which to negotiate and achieve a treaty for improving the quality of medicines.