Human Rights
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 08:03
U.S. expressed deep concern on Wednesday over the arrest and disappearance of dozens of Rwandans over the last two months, including people held up to two months without being charged or allowed to communicate with their families.
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 07:15
Africa analyst Bronwyn Bruton said she does not expect to hear a lot about human rights issues during the forthcoming US/Africa leaders’ summit in Washington.
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 07:05
Charles Chucky Taylor, son of imprisoned ex-Liberian President Charles G. Taylor, has apologized from a US prison to families, children, friends, partisans and Liberians for his wrongs.
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 06:03
Spokesperson Marie Harf addresses the U.S.'s concern over the arrests and disappearances in Rwanda, U.S. assistance to Egypt, the next round of talks with Iran, U.S. support for the moderate opposition in Syria, the interim Palestinian government, and the Andrew Tahmooressi case in Mexico
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 12:36
Brazil is indeed stuck in the past. However, this temporal disjunction is less the outcome of an economic or (and) institutional delay, but more of an insistence on resorting to violence as a mean of managing political anxiety.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 12:16
La activista pidió que el gobierno de Moreno Valle establezca una mesa de diálogo que lleve a la derogación de la ley que posibilita la represión en contra de manifestaciones sociales.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 11:56
Mohamed Soltan, an Egyptian-American who was arrested last year by Egypt’s military-backed government, appealed to President Obama for help.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:53
On April 12, 1994, six days after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, setting off a wave of killings, Madeleine K. Albright, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, sent a cable to the State Department proposing that the United States take the lead in pushing to withdraw most of the United Nations peacekeeping force operating there.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:36
The United States is deeply concerned by the arrest and disappearance of dozens of Rwandan citizens in Rwanda over the past two months by Rwandan authorities.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 05:43
Spokesperson Marie Harf discusses Egypt's presidential election, U.S. foreign assistance to the Palestinian Territories, U.S. policy on Syria, freedom of the press in Turkey, and the Andrew Tahmooressi case in Mexico.