Rebecca Barber

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Rebecca Barber is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland. Her research focuses on UN Charter law, international peace and security law, international human rights and humanitarian law and the responsibility to protect. Rebecca previously had a career with international humanitarian NGOs, managing human rights and legal assistance programs, as well as multi-sector humanitarian response programs, in humanitarian crises in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa. Her writing has been widely published including in leading international law journals. Rebecca is a qualified lawyer, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Peacekeeping and is a member of the Victorian International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee with the Australian Red Cross.

Can ASEAN forge a political solution in Myanmar?
Can ASEAN forge a political solution in Myanmar?
Indonesia and Australia have different but equally critical roles in bringing the junta to the negotiating table.
Response to Myanmar coup shows need for UN reform
Response to Myanmar coup shows need for UN reform
Veto power on the Security Council too often obstructs action in the face of atrocities. Here are some ways around it.
The obstacles to Syrian aid
The obstacles to Syrian aid
Russia and China have used the Security Council to squelch cross-border humanitarian assistance. It’s time for options.
ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis
ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis
The regional body has been notably silent on genocide in Myanmar, ducking behind the myth of non-interference.
In Yemen, a deadly concoction of arms sales, conflict and Covid-19
In Yemen, a deadly concoction of arms sales, conflict and Covid-19
Without a ceasefire, a humanitarian catastrophe fuelled by Western arms shipments is about to get much worse.
Syria: What the UN can do, and must do
Syria: What the UN can do, and must do
With the Security Council once more hostage to the veto, the General Assembly should test the world’s resolve.
The worrying precedent of Turkey’s “safe zone”
The worrying precedent of Turkey’s “safe zone”
Under international law, one country cannot invade another to seize territory – yet that appears to have been endorsed.
Syria: the disgraceful stain left by the UN Security Council veto
Syria: the disgraceful stain left by the UN Security Council veto
The General Assembly has a chance to act in the interests of peace in the face of Russian and Chinese intransigence.
70 years of the Geneva Conventions and why we need them more than ever
70 years of the Geneva Conventions and why we need them more than ever
As tensions rise, this highpoint of multilateralism in the past offers comfort to the present in knowing rules apply.
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