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  • Rohingya activists demand a halt to 'ongoing genocide'

    the capital Naypyitaw on Wednesday, Tillerson said he favoured individual sanctions against military officials for an independent investigation, Tun Khin - president of Burmese Rohingya Organisation based in the UK "These crimes thrive on impunity and inaction," said Matthew Smith, chief executive officer of Fortify

  • DR Congo: M23 Militia Forcibly Deports Refugees to Rwanda

    M23 officials used the Lake Kivu Christian Center (Centre Chrétien du Lac Kivu or CCLK) transit center The International Criminal Court prosecutor has  announced that his office would renew investigative On May 17, Rwanda’s foreign affairs minister  claimed that the repatriated refugees were formerly held Rwanda’s capital, to Goma, and to Masisi territory, organized and accompanied by staff of the Rwandan Office However, the mere presence of national armed forces or armed groups opposing the foreign forces does

  • Myanmar Genocide Designation Tests Biden

    Biden has made fostering democracy and protecting human rights pillars of his foreign policy , and in But State Department officials who oversee East Asia policy fear that it could turn other Burmese against In its final days in office, the Trump administration issued a genocide declaration on behalf of ethnic It almost certainly would increase pressure on other nations and foreign companies that have even indirectly state-owned oil and gas industry amid a lobbying push by California-based Chevron , which is one of three foreign

  • Uighurs: Western countries sanction China over rights abuses

    Several Western countries have announced sanctions against officials in China over rights abuses against The sanctions were announced as part of a coordinated effort by the European Union, UK, Canada and the China responded with its own sanctions against European officials. But UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the abuse of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang was "one of the Xinjiang's top official, Chen Quanguo, was not on the list.

  • Syria Will Stain Obama’s Legacy Forever

    > <v:imagedata src="file://localhost/Users/vanessacardenas/Library/Group%20Containers/UBF8T346G9.<mark>Office</mark> But now evidence suggests that the Russian president played a direct role in hacking Democratic Party <mark>officials</mark> Indeed, Obama, entering <mark>office</mark> after Bush’s ruinous adventurism, made the avoidance of another quagmire Obama’s Syria legacy won’t be the only factor shaping how posterity regards his <mark>foreign</mark> policy. Image credits: Getty Images/<mark>Foreign</mark> Policy illustrations George Ourfalian/ AFP Abd Doumany/ AFP

  • U.S. Says China's Repression of Uighurs is Genocide

    Foreign policy officials and experts across the political spectrum in the United States say China will To deflect criticism from U.S. officials, Chinese officials have also taken to underlining some of the Biden takes office. Biden, a critic of China’s human rights record during his decades in office, has used forceful language articles on the camps and a sophisticated high-tech surveillance system in Xinjiang in 2017, well before foreign

  • The Costs of Losing Ukraine

    In the aftermath of costly U.S. frustrations in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, advocating foreign policy Richard Moore , head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6,  says the cost  of not supporting Andrei Kolesnikov of the  Finnish Institute of International Affairs , writing in  Foreign Affairs , former ambassador to Russia (2012-2014), now at Stanford and the Hoover Institution, correctly says ( in Foreign Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs.

  • U.S. Bans All Cotton and Tomatoes from Xinjiang Region of China

    In December, customs officials announced a ban on cotton products made by the Xinjiang Production and Government Accountability Office found that customs suffered from staff shortages and other issues despite on Wednesday, Brenda Smith, the executive assistant commissioner at Customs and Border Protection’s Office technologies, like pollen analysis, to try to identify cotton and other materials from Xinjiang in foreign products, officials said. © 2021 The New York Times Company

  • Russia's New Threat to Exiles: Seized Assets and Forced Returns

    arrested in Thailand last week for an immigration violation, where, their supporters said, Russian officials Their supporters said Russian officials spent days pushing Thailand to deport some of them to Russia, Russia’s Foreign Ministry denied interfering in the Bi-2 case in Thailand, but it referred to the band Some pro-Kremlin figures have started praising Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for getting more The head of the Bali regional office of Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Romi Yudianto,

  • Niger situation remains ‘fluid’ as army backs coup plotters

    Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou issued a similar call on news network France 24, asking “all Nigerian New Zealand, repeated the US condemnation of the mutiny and said his team was in close contact with officials are internally displaced, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters after speaking to senior UN officials the coup that took place in Niger against the country’s civilian democratic authorities,” the French foreign Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday in televised remarks that “it’s necessary to restore the

  • Rebels attack central African Republic mining town

    since 2013, when predominantly Muslim rebels seized power and forced the President Francois Bozize from office operated with impunity across the embattled country over the past decade, thwarting mining exploration by foreign

  • Palestine Action terror ban ruled unlawful by High Court

    Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, took the Home Office to court over their decision to proscribe co-founder of the group, hailed the outcome as a “monumental victory” in her case against the Home Office Lawyers for Ms Ammori and the Home Office have till the 20 February to provide further submissions to One activist Grace Lally asked two liaison officers if it was illegal to hold the sign, with the officers Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of Human Rights Watch, said that the verdict was a “shot in the arm for British

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