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Afghan Women on the US-Taliban Peace Deal: We Refuse to Shut Up

Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
• March 25, 2020

Afghan women’s inclusion in the current peace negotiations with the Taliban and the United States has become an international cause célèbre. But calls for participation of Afghan women without methodical, sustained and substantive engagement in a peace settlement has the…

Categories: Gender Violence, Women

Pompeo Retreats on Universal Human Rights as US Looks More Inward

Barbara Crossette
• June 4, 2019

In an audacious move that could be the capstone of the Trump administration’s campaign to reverse decades of American support for human rights globally, the State Department is creating a separate new commission to advise Secretary of State Mike…

Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations

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As Expected, the US Quits the UN Human Rights Council

Barbara Crossette
• June 19, 2018

In a long-expected decision, the United States announced it was withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world body’s primary organ for promoting and protecting the rights of people worldwide. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and…