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Criminal Justice Reform Didn’t End — It Decentralized

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By Melanne Verveer, Jessica C. Anania
| Just Security Verified
The first year of the Trump administration has fueled a growing narrative that criminal justice reform is over, undone by federal retrenchment, civil rights rollbacks, and a renewed punitive agenda. But the data tell a more complicated story. While Washington has moved sharply in one direction, state governments have quietly passed bipartisan reforms, suggesting that criminal justice reform in the United States has not collapsed—it has decentralized and grown more incremental.
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Fighting an Illegal War and Fighting a War Illegally: the Link between Regime Change Operations and International Humanitarian Law Violations

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By Melanne Verveer, Jessica C. Anania
| Just Security Verified
When States go to war to replace an enemy’s very system of government, the goals of the military campaign can lead to noncompliance with the rules that regulate belligerents during armed conflict. The end result threatens not only international law prohibiting the resort to war except under very specific circumstances, but also international humanitarian law that protects civilians in wartime.
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Another Casualty of Trump’s New Foreign Policy: Women

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By Geeta Gupta, Melanne Verveer
| Ms. Magazine Verified
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the 76th NATO Summit in the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. (Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images) As President Donald Trump rewrites U.S. foreign policy and threatens the international order, he is also dismantling long-standing bipartisan commitments to women’s equality.
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