President Obama needs to step up big time. It is time he uses his greatest strength--his ability to orate -- to outlines a new American approach to the region.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's wants the Obama administration to pull out of the Human Rights Council and de-fund it. Here is why that is a bad idea.
The two UN officials charged with monitoring genocide and mass atrocity are sounding the alarm that political violence in Cote D'Ivoire may descend into a genocide.
Navi Pillay: "Human rights abuses were at the heart of Tunisia's problems, and therefore human rights must be right at the forefront of the solutions to those problems."
Swedish authorities plan on deporting 25 Iraqi asylum seekers later today. This is despite the fact that the UN Refugee Agency has warned that asylum seekers originating from several provinces in Iraq should be granted refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Brookings Institution China Center Director Kenneth Lieberthal explains what will be driving the discussion between the United States and China.It is disappointing, though not unexpected, that human rights issues are sidelined.
The prosecutor of the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon has issued long-awaited indictments for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Harriri. This is a big enough deal that President Obama issued a statement late on a Monday evening.
If talks with the Taliban are still possible at this late stage, they will be fraught with bitter political choices, unsettled grievances, legal binds and ethical dilemmas.
