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In a world of sovereign states

Dimitry Kochenov (Groningen): The Right to Leave Any Country. Christian Barry (ANU): Immigration and Global Justice. Mary Bosworth (Oxford): Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State. Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv): Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: The Minimal Other-Regarding Obligations. Timo Koivurova (Lapland): Sovereign States and Self-Determining Peoples: Carving Out a Place for Transnational Indigenous Peoples in a World of Sovereign States. Group rights v individual rights: From indigenous peoples to newly installed migrants, governments face awkward demands for collective exemptions and entitlements. To understand what makes integration fail or succeed we need to know why migrants moved in the first place. An article examines the unintended effects of UN intervention leading to substantial increases in the human sex trafficking trade into crisis areas. Louise Shelley on her book Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective. How “free” is the Human Rights Council? Mark Leon Goldberg investigates. War crimes reporting after Goldstone war: The fight over the Gaza report has raised questions about the politicization of the UN's human rights regime — but can such inquiries ever be impartial? A review of Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force by Allen Buchanan. The age of the manhunt: Never before have individuals been so threatening to the security of nation-states, and never before have nations had so many tools to dispatch these enemies — but is the effort worth the risk? Peter Singer on global justice and military intervention. The UN blue helmets' reputation gets a black eye. Why the UN is liked in Africa, but not so much in the Middle East. Simon Chesterman (NUS): The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary. Why Ban Ki Moon deserves a second term as Secretary General of the UN.