Mona Ali Khalil
Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognized public international lawyer with 30 years of UN and other experience, including as a former senior legal officer in the UN and the IAEA, with expertise in peacekeeping, peace enforcement, disarmament and counterterrorism. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from Harvard University and a master’s in foreign service and a J.D. from Georgetown University. She is the founder and director of MAK LAW INTERNATIONAL and an affiliate of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. She has co-authored several publications, including Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats, the UN Security Council Conflict Management Handbook and Protection of Civilians.
It is not clear whether the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas and negotiated by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye will survive its first phase. Since it began, Israeli forces have not stopped killing Palestinians in Gaza, and …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
Palantir Technologies, an American software company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp with two others, is often referred to as “the AI arms dealer of the 21st century.” Palantir is involved in everything from government surveillance and predictive policing …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War
With illegal settlements rising and settler violence surging in the West Bank, and with famine and relentless bombing killing more than 64,000 Palestinians in Gaza so far, most of them women and children, the world is looking to see what, …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the UN has invoked her immunity and called on the US to …
- Categories: Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
For the past 75 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has been “the custodian of Palestine refugee rights,” a protector of their lives and a source of their livelihoods. It is now facing possible demise. …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
On June 21, the United States joined Israel’s unprovoked war against Iran by attacking at least three of its nuclear sites –Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. The Israeli and US attacks are presumptively unlawful and constitute war crimes. Less than two …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
President Donald Trump recently declared: “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize.” He added that “it’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.” It’s clear that based on his character, his abuse …
- Categories: Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
The Israeli narrative says its assault on Gaza started on Oct. 7, 2023, in response to the Hamas attack in southern Israel. The Palestinian narrative says Israel’s assault against the entire population of Gaza began much earlier: in 1948 when …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It is tragically appropriate to take stock of two decades of war and genocide in Sudan and to commit to ending the violence against …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
Reforms that require amendments to the United Nations Charter will not yield change in time to save us from what Secretary-General António Guterres has called the “confluence of challenges” that the world is facing: from war, terrorism and genocide to …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council
Israeli newspapers recently reported that the country’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the former Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs Nasser Al-Kidwa “agreed to work together to promote the achievement of peace between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and peace …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS
Secretary-General António Guterres has limited his role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to that of a town crier, expressing “grave concern” from time to time regarding the terrible Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and Israel’s collective punishment of …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
As we approach the Summit of the Future in September, it is time to measure the distance between the United Nations’ vision and today’s reality. The UN is not on track to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change or …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that he single-handedly blocked a Palestinian State from becoming a reality even though it is recognized by more than 130 countries and enjoys the status of an Observer State in the United Nations. In his …
The catastrophe in Rafah has begun. In the 131 terrible days since the horrible Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, we have watched 1.8 million Palestinian civilians pushed from the north of Gaza to the south and even further south …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
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