Jonathan Miller
Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
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FactCheck: would Labour’s War Powers Act work?
Jeremy Corbyn is calling for a War Powers Act to require the government to get parliamentary approval before military interventions. But would it actually achieve the accountability Labour want?
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Jonathan Miller
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What does the UN’s Syria resolution tell us?
A draft UN resolution on Syria aims to ensure that President Bashar al-Assad relinquishes his grip on power. But what else does the document say? Jonathan Rugman reads between the lines.
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Critical Sri Lanka report sent to Human Rights Council
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report highly critical of the actions of government troops in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war to the UN Human Rights Council.
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UN’s Libya vote: who voted for what
There was a split between the UN Security Council’s permanent members when they came to vote on a Libyan no-fly zone resolution. So who voted for what – and why?
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Sexual violence in Congo – hearing the women's stories
The endemic sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not an unreported story – but reporting itself cannot make the difference, as Lindsey Hilsum writes of new hope that the perpetrators could be caught.
