Press freedom organizations condemn US withdrawal from UNESCO
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), ARTICLE 19 and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemn the decision by the US government to...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 13, 2017
Assessing U.S. Policy Towards Burma: Geopolitical, Economic, and Humanitarian Considerations
Chairman Corker, Ranking Member Cardin, distinguished Members of the Committee, we appreciate the invitation to appear before you today...
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Oct 12, 2017
International Celebration of Lifting of U.S. Economic Sanctions on Sudan: Exercises in Self-Interest
I’ll be writing regularly about what follows in the wake of the Trump administration’s permanent lifting of U.S. economic sanctions on...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Oct 10, 2017
The prohibition of nuclear weapons: Assisting victims and remediating the environment
States have agreed upon a treaty with humanitarian foundations that prohibits nuclear weapons. It contains much, beyond its prohibitions,...
Elizabeth Minor | Humanitarian Law and Policy
Oct 10, 2017
Photographer found dead one day after being abducted
The young Mexican photographer Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro was abducted yesterday, on October 5th, in his home in the city of San Luis...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 6, 2017
Land of the Free, But Only for a Few
Refugees and asylum seekers protest against Australia’s offshore processing policy at a detention center on Manus Island, Papua New...
Al Jazeera
Oct 5, 2017
LGBT Refugees Find that Safety in West is Far from Absolute
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
A New Roadmap to Make U.S. Sudan Sanctions Relief Work
I.Overview By 12 October, the U.S. will decide whether to permanently lift economic and trade sanctions it suspended since January 2017....
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 29, 2017
Canada Shows Global Leadership on Protecting Civilians in Yemen
By Farida Deif Officials tour a government compound destroyed by recent Saudi-led air strikes in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 27, 2017
Did Donald Trump just threaten to commit genocide?
President Donald Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was noted for its aggressiveness, bellicosity and...
The Independent
Sep 27, 2017
US urges South Sudan to seize last chance to save peace deal
By Edith M. Lederer U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley urged South Sudan’s leaders on Tuesday to seize “the last chance” to salvage the 2015...
Washington Post
Sep 26, 2017
State Department Delaying Aid Congress Provided to Yazidis, Christians in Iraq
Human rights activists and Catholic groups are questioning why the State Department still appears reluctant to direct money Congress...
Susan Crabtree | The Washington Free Beacon
Sep 25, 2017
