Hasmik Egian
Hasmik Egian was chief of staff in the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria from 2014-2016 and director of the UN’s Security Council Affairs Department from 2016-2022.
Few people outside the orbit of practitioners and scholars of international human rights law have heard of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, or WGAD. Yet, this organ of the Human Rights Council, established in 1991, is the …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
After President Bashar al-Assad of Syria fled the country on Dec. 8, 2024, a surprisingly brisk military offensive was carried out by various Syrian opposition groups, aided by numerous outside patrons, marching from their bases in Idlib in northwest Syria …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
Attempts at structural reform of the United Nations Security Council, whether about its size, membership or the powers allotted to its members, has been a work in progress for over three decades. Yet there is scant prospect that this effort …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council
Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicization of the International Criminal Court since assuming the role of Prosecutor in June 2021 has significantly eroded the credibility of the Court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy. Khan …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Security Council
Representatives of United Nations agencies based in Azerbaijan, acting on instructions from that government, hopped into their four-wheel drives on Oct. 1 and proceeded from Baku, the capital, to Stepanakert/Khandendi, the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region known to Armenians as …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
In 2014, the Syrian conflict appeared to be spinning out of control. Reaching new levels of horror and suffering that inflicted death, displacement and destruction on a massive scale within Syria, it had also developed into a full-fledged regional proxy …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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