With all the focus on the economy this election cycle, I’m disheartened to note that critical international issues have been relegated to the political back burner.
As an advocate for international human rights, I’ve naturally been...
August 12, 2012 3:04 am / no comments
As reported by the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Michael Posner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor., issued a statement last week concerning on-going human rights challenges faced in China.
Following the 17th...
July 29, 2012 8:19 pm / no comments
The SCOTUS blog recently held a symposium on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. Kiobel is one of the most important cases that will be decided by the Supreme Court in the new term that begins October 1, 2012.
Lyle Dennison’s article, Kiobel:...
July 20, 2012 12:46 am / no comments
According to the UN News Center, the United Nations human rights chief has called on Kyrgyzstan to address corruption and discrimination, adding that they are severely hampering the nation’s economic growth and social prosperity.
The UN High...
July 16, 2012 4:09 am / no comments
Several years ago I wrote a post over at the International Business Law Advisor about internet freedom.
The post, The Great Firewall of China: How Lessons from the Apartheid Era Can Lift the Information Curtain, focused on China’s blocking...
July 10, 2012 5:56 am / no comments
As FoxNews reported earlier today, a Senate approved a bill that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.
The Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee approved the bill that would impose visa bans and freeze the assets...
June 29, 2012 3:35 am / no comments
After the international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995, I naively thought the world would had seen the last of indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing and systematic...
June 27, 2012 1:51 am / no comments
A post by the U.S. Mission in Geneva reports that the United States is increasing its humanitarian aid to the Syrian people by more than $12 million, bringing its total aid in response to the Syrian government’s brutal crackdown against...
April 14, 2012 12:28 am / no comments
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (December 10, 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the...
April 13, 2012 11:32 pm / no comments
NPR has reported that Amnesty International says the Cuban government has increased its harassment of opposition activists.
According to the human rights organization, the government has detained more 150 opponents and in other situations has...
April 13, 2012 10:52 pm / no comments
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