President Obama needs to put this principle into practice, and there is no better case for the humanitarian use of force than the urgent need to arrest Joseph Kony, the ruthless leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and protect the civilians who are his prey.

The trial of a former Guantanamo detainee in US federal court acknowledges the superiority of civilian courts over the discredited military commissions for prosecuting terrorism suspects. Opening arguments in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian citizen charged in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, are set to begin October 4, 2010.

The US Senate should quickly approve a bipartisan bill that sets out a new strategy for US engagement in the struggle to end violence against women worldwide. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill on Wednesday, September 29, 2010.

These courts may try some of the most important cases in years. To hold a fair hearing and come to a just result lawyers should not have the opportunity to pick and choose from varying sets of rules depending upon which ones best suit their clients' interests.

US and Southeast Asian leaders meeting in New York this week should press the Burmese government to end an escalating campaign of repression, release political prisoners, and begin a dialogue with opposition groups ahead of Burma's coming flawed elections.

This Friday, New York will host a ministerial gathering of Friends of Yemen, an international group formed to address political and economic conditions that have provided fertile ground for al Qaeda in the troubled Arab country. To be effective, it is critical that Friends not ignore Yemen's serious human rights abuses in their understandable eagerness to confront the terrorist threat within its borders.

The detention of Adnan Latif in Guantanamo Bay is unjust and detrimental to the US.