More Bashar al-Assad, according to United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights... Fact Syria is Obama's of aggression, now Trump's, responsible for hundreds of thousands killed, millions displaced, and vast destruction.. ..…
Shortly before leaving office, President Barack Obama had conditioned the sale of fighter jets to Bahrain on set of reform benchmarks to address human rights abuses Bahrain's government refused to comply with Obama's request with the confidence that U.S government would..…
After he won the presidency, Obama invited Power to serve in White House managing portfolio that included multilateral affairs and human rights. ..…
Finally, she was able to flee the country and make her way to Brooklyn on visa she already had from trips to discuss human rights abuses with women leaders like Michelle Obama. ..…
While Asia has few security institutions, United States should press for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia Summit, to meet for emergency sessions to respond to human rights violations.. For example, Obama administration suspended certain types of security..…
Russia lost a 2016 election to the United Nations Human Rights Council because President Barack Obama’s U.N. ... For Power, 48, who served as America's top U.N. diplomat in Obama’s second term, the race to see whether Russia would secure a three-year term on the body's..…
�We�ve been slow to speak out for human rights and that was the case here,� Obama said. . ..…
'Human rights groups criticized Mr. Obama for failing to more forcefully challenge Mr. ..…
La agenda de la Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca acerca de la visita de Obama a Cuba. ... Obama’s Visit to Cuba and Human Rights By Arnold August, March 05, 2016 . . ..…
Baer served Human Rights, and Labor during President Obama's first term, and U.S. ..…
That is true, said Vanita Gupta, who led Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama and now runs Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. ..…
The commission comes addition to State Department's existing Bureau of Democracy, Labor, and Human Rights, on human rights around the world. While that report included sections on LGBTQ rights during Obama, analysis by Oxfam found that Trump State Department..…
“I don’t think this is the advisory committee for expanding rights,” said Representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who was Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights during the Obama administration. . Natural law is a philosophical thought that says that certain..…
Berschinski of Human Rights First, who previously served in the Obama administration as deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, said 2018 was the first year that no sanctions were announced under the Magnitsky Act or the Global..…
Trump — December 20, 2017 Blocking Property of Persons Involved Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption Myanmar relating to Rohingya conflict. Obama — April 3, 2014 Blocking the property of certain people on the wrong side of South Sudan war. ..…
Of the complaints that were received by the DOJ—during both the Trump administration, whose immigration policies have provoked international outrage and numerous accusations of human rights abuses, but also the Obama administration—178 involved an adult staff member abusing a..…
Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attended a meeting with Obama and major human rights groups held prior to Obama’s Guantánamo speech. ..…
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Finkelstein also notes the role of Obama then secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor.. t's telling that instead of advocating the indictment of Israel for its war crimes, as one might expect of the founder and president of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Posner..…
His speech’s biggest shift from Obama’s is also what went unsaid: any focus on democracy or human rights. . ... They studiously ignored Obama’s polite but pointed and—in light of the 2011 uprisings—prescient criticisms of worrying deficiencies in human..…
Laws are Just the laws are clear, publicized, stable, and just are applied evenly and protect fundamental rights, including the security of persons and property and certain human rights. 3. What became agreement under Barack Obama, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action aka..…
The union leaders also criticized the report, as did Vanita Gupta, president of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Obama-era Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. ..…
At the time, Emmanuel Ogebe, human rights attorney, called Obama administration out for discounting or outright denying the fact that Islamic militants orchestrate and violence specifically against Christians throughout Nigeria... ..…
Dina Titus introduced the legislation, known or GLOBE Act, on the heels of the anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, U.N document affirming human rights for people across the globe.. ... Mark Bromley, chair of Council for Global Equality, said GLOBE Act..…
United States had joined the travesty of UN Human Rights Council in 2009 during former President Barack Hussein Obama's first term, and after Council was established to replace the widely discredited UN Commission on Human Rights. ..…
., one of Democrats who voted for March and then switched November, also is appropriate to reassess our relationship with Saudi Arabia in response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other violations of human rights... He also faulted Trump, and Democratic Obama administration..…
which was passed by unanimous consent in Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, expanded Country Reports on Human Rights Practices of Department of State to include examination of freedom of the press. ..…
The proposed changes will be open to public comments for 60 days and the backlash has already started on media, where it was denounced by former Obama Valerie Jarett, Human Rights Campaign, and even American Civil Liberties Union .. ..…
She was referring to Barack Obama when he was running for president and was asked in 2008 during a Dallas forum with evangelical pastor Rick Warren: “When does a baby get human rights?” Obama replied, “Whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a..…
United States Human Rights Council makes Israel agenda item, even China and Venezuela. The Obama administration noted the anomaly, and it stuck with the order to nudge its members to condemn abuses in other countries.. ..…
“Her personal history … gives her an enormous amount of credibility,” said Stephen Pomper, former senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights in Obama’s National Security Council. ..…
With Bush boasting in his memoirs about enhanced interrogation, and Dick Cheney accusing Obama of making America safe, investigations would have reinforced Republican claims that the torture debate is partisan issue, rather than what it's rule of law and human rights issue.. Early on,..…
Human Rights Watch said that President Obama's decision not to veto the bill does enormous damage to the rule of law both in the US and abroad. ..…
Prior to joining Crisis Group, Stephen served as Special Assistant to President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at National Security Council under President Obama. ..…
in 2009 Obama administration decided to join, as announced by Susan Rice, Obama's U.S. In statement to NPR, Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's director said that Human Rights Council has played in such countries as North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and South Sudan, and all..…
This was groundbreaking step and necessity to ensure the health, security, and human rights of women and girls. President Obama tried in again 2009, establishing White House Council on Women and Girls, and State Department Office of Global Women's Issues.. ..…
Bill Clinton honored at UConn for human rights . DeLauro breaks with Obama, big CT firms on Pacific trade deal . . . ..…
References . [1] Human Rights Watch, 30 Years of Hun Sen Violence, Repression, and Corruption in Cambodia,January 12, 2015 , https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/01/12/30-years-hun-sen/violence-repression-and-corruption-cambodia . [2] Human Rights Watch, Cambodia: Hun Sen Promoting, Rewarding..…
Yet while mainstream media figures sound the alarm today, Assad’s human rights atrocities are half a decade old. The situation in Aleppo is in part the product of President Barack Obama’s failure to lead in preventing Assad from making human rights..…
In July 28 letter to President Obama, Human Rights Watch urges United States, leadership by working with Jordan, close ally, to move the stranded asylum seekers to location. ..…
The final rule says the Obama administration “decided against including a blanket religious exemption in the final rule.” . Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, was among those praising the Obama administration for clarifying anti-LGBT discrimination is..…
He has gone so far as to remove the Religious Freedom Section from the State Department’s Human Rights reports. . Obama’s American compassion. . Obama then went on to angrily school us on the meaning of America, admonishing opponents of his disastrous and suicidal refugee..…
Mothers from 25 detained families, including 10 who had been locked up for 8 to 10 months, described to Human Rights Watch their family’s trauma, depression, and suicidal thoughts. . ... US authorities should immediately release migrant families detained after entering the United States..…
., said the legislation signals U.S will not tolerate impunity of violations of human rights Venezuela... I call on President Obama and State Department to enforce the sanctions against Venezuelan officials swiftly... ..…
Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, told The New York Times, “It’s going to complicate the scenario of civil and human rights at the border.” . The Obama administration said Thursday that a team of military and national..…
Human Rights Group Charges U.S. Backs Terrorists in Syria . . . . • IHRC urges Obama to take closer look at whom U.S. is arming . ... When the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) says the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is nothing but a bunch of terrorists, one..…
Bush and other senior officials, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ... 'There are solid grounds to investigate Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tenet for authorizing torture and war crimes,' said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. ..…
In fact, even Obama addressed, if only in, the concerns of American people over what are perceived to be the human rights violations by Chinese government.. ... Yet somehow, Americans, living in country that is invading two other countries that have never attacked them, or..…