Analysis

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

Verified cases in which a norm of international law has been violated — or threatened with violation — in contexts that receive little or no international media coverage. Each case is selected using the SDR-70 method: not for isolated severity, but for the gap between the severity of the fact and the attention it receives. Every piece states the relevant norm, the dated source, and the symmetry test applied.

September 6, 2026

Taiwan: the price of a balance no one wants to break

“We must prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.” — Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan, January 2026

Analysis

Taiwan: the price of a balance no one wants to break

Minerals for security: Congo's peace has a price, and Congo doesn't set it

The Full-Face Veil and the State: Imposition, Ban, Non-Intervention

Thirteen years to topple a man the West had already given up on toppling

A deal that worked, torn up anyway

Thirty years to a war

Two warrants, zero arrests

Fifteen Years for a Warrant

The UN says it isn’t safe to return to Syria. Turkey and Germany are sending people back anyway.

Three States, One Treaty, Three Different Standards

Ethiopia: the war the government still calls a “security problem”

Colombia: a 2016 peace deal, and children recruited at gunpoint in 2025

A billion dollars despite sanctions: how Iran keeps funding Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis

Turkish and Chinese drones for Haftar: Libya remains a theatre of UN arms embargo violations, now on both sides of the front line

Four European Court rulings condemn Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Macedonia for hosting secret CIA prisons

The United States armed the Syrian rebellion for five years, then shut down the program as a gift to Putin

Israel allowed and encouraged Qatari funding of Hamas for years — a month before October 7 it asked for more

Iran: government admits "thousands" dead in protests, then executes the survivors

DR Congo: the Washington peace deal hasn't stopped the killing of civilians in the east

Cameroon: election crackdown lands in a Paris court, as the Anglophone crisis turns ten

Burkina Faso leaves the International Criminal Court while remaining the world's country most affected by terrorism

Afghanistan: the International Criminal Court charges the Taliban leadership with gender persecution

Gaza and the word "genocide": what third-party bodies have actually determined, and why a genocide scholar's voice carries weight

Haiti: a UN-authorized “suppression force” against gangs half made of children

The International Court of Justice deliberates on the Rohingya genocide

The DRC takes Rwanda to the International Court of Justice

The Israeli school system: a factory of the enemy

Iran: the 2026 war nears its end, and the unresolved question of the use of force

Taiwan, the next test: deterrence wavers and the precedent emboldens Beijing

South Sudan on the edge of famine, while the tribunal promised in 2018 remains a dead letter

Mali: army and Russian Africa Corps mercenaries arrange a corpse into a swastika after killing four civilians