Tag: Human Rights

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released his proposal to reorganize the Department of State—and it’s a doozy. When I joined government as the U.S. special envoy for ...

As the Catholic Church—and the world—mourns the death of Pope Francis, reflects on his legacy, and looks to the future with the election of a new pontiff, the Vatican would ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is notoriously indifferent to human rights, and he makes no exception for China. Rather, Trump’s dominant concern with Beijing has been America’s trade deficit—prompting the full-blown ...

On Feb. 27, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), called on the group and its armed affiliates to lay down their weapons and disband. The ...

For years, right-wing governments have been passing measures that make it harder for human rights groups and other civil society organizations to operate in Israel. Now, two bills making their ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Sudan’s devastating humanitarian crisis, upcoming elections in Singapore, and China’s trade relations in Southeast Asia. ‘We Simply Cannot Look Away’ Tuesday ...

Students are protesting across Indonesia—chanting slogans; skirmishing with police; and in one city, even throwing Molotov cocktails. The protesters are demanding the repeal of a law passed on March 20 ...

Georgia, which sits at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was once considered a bastion of democracy in the region, but lately it has been forced down a pro-Russia authoritarian ...

Several Latin American leaders are cooperating with U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for large-scale deportations from the United States—but none more enthusiastically than Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Bukele offered last ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: The United States deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, Mexicans react to the discovery of a mass ...