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Pompeo’s New Agenda Targets the UN Rights Declaration

Barbara Crossette

• July 20, 2020

In an extraordinary report that defies reality, the Trump administration is extolling United States’ global leadership in human rights and accusing its critics of threatening democracy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who created the US Commission on Unalienable Rights last year and ordered the report, introduced it on July 16 in Philadelphia, where the …

Human Rights, US Foreign Relations

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Pompeo’s Religion Is Carrying More Sway in US Foreign Policy

Barbara Crossette

• July 14, 2019

When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo convenes the second of his ministerial-level, multifaith conferences on religious freedom around the world on July 16 to 18, global threats to Christianity are likely to figure prominently, if recent comments by American officials are any guide. Pompeo is a guiding light. An Evangelical Christian, he says he sees a …

Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations

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