Human Rights Watch
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • June 28, 2018
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When Philip Alston decided to focus a report on the United States, in his role as the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the goal was to spur a larger discussion. However, in the past…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, Poverty, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 7, 2018
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For almost three centuries, through street protests, court battles and a civil war, the United States has sporadically but steadily advanced and expanded human-rights protections and commitments in domestic and foreign policies. Now Donald Trump and the most conservative,…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2018
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The 2018 winter session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was marked more by what didn’t happen than what did. There was still no official announcement in Geneva from the Trump administration about whether the United States would leave…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 18, 2018
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There has yet to be a decision in United States Congress on what funds for global women’s health, if any, will survive in the current 2018 national budget, a decision that is nearly six months overdue. But Donald Trump…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Poverty, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Bill Buchanan
- • January 1, 2018
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Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized least-developed countries as those deemed highly disadvantaged in their development strides because of structural, historical and geographical reasons. The aim has been, and still is, to support these countries to graduate to…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, OPINIONS, Poverty
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Kacie Candela
- • May 23, 2017
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Amid the predominantly Francophone region in West Africa is tiny Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, a country blessed — or cursed — with vast oil reserves. For most of its independent life, the country has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Poverty, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 16, 2017
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While trying to make the case that the United States remains committed to global health programs, the Trump administration has issued orders to nongovernmental organizations and others working in women’s health that could cripple some of their international operations…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 11, 2017
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In the arcane language of diplomacy, a special section is reserved for navigating linguistic traps in negotiating peace agreements. One of many examples is the 1995 Oslo II interim agreement with Israel on the future of the West Bank…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights
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- Opinion by Boris Dittrich and Faisel Tjon-A-Loi
- • December 13, 2016
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Suriname’s government is on the right track at home when it comes to protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people against discrimination and violence. In 2015, the government introduced antidiscrimination legislation, including sexual orientation on grounds for nondiscrimination complaints….
- Categories: Human Rights, Latin America, LGBT, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 16, 2016
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While governments bask in data showing that the development goal of universal access to primary education has largely been achieved, attention is turning to what that really means in the classroom. Educators and human-rights advocates question whether acceptable standards…
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- Ariel Sophia Bardi
- • May 2, 2016
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Seven years after the end of its civil war, tourism in Sri Lanka continues to spike. The island nation is fast approaching its annual target of 2.5 million international visitors, a staggering figure for a…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 1, 2016
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Grim images from the small world of children are multiplying. Little bodies adrift in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Uncomprehending faces pressed against wire fences and barricades in Europe from the Balkans to the French port of Calais. At…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Middle East
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- Opinion by Belkis Wille
- • March 21, 2016
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SANAA, Yemen — I carry out human-rights work in the age of social media, but the hashtag #AbuAlzulofLostHumanitarianEthics is one of the most disturbing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s one more wrong move that has turned the…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 15, 2016
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Hailing from various corners of the world, five activists gathered in New York recently to assess the progress of women’s rights globally — presenting a mixed picture of gains in Africa but threats to women’s rights through new programs…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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