Human Rights - Page 62

September 18, 2017

Protesters call out Pelosi over Trump DACA deal

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got an earful on Monday after protesters in San Francisco confronted her angrily for striking a tentative deal with President Trump over a program to extend legal protections to young undocumented immigrants.

June 22, 2017

Daily newspaper columnist who defended NRA quits after suspension

A conservative columnist who was suspended by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after she defended the National Rifle Association from comparisons to ISIS fired back with her resignation and a series of targeted tweets.

June 22, 2017

North Korea: Tillerson, Mattis still playing China card with Pyongyang

One day after President Trump appeared to give up on China as an effective mediator in the West’s long-running disputes with North Korea, two of the president’s most senior cabinet officials signaled that the administration has not altogether abandoned the use of China as an intermediary.

June 20, 2017

Otto Warmbier dead: Trump condemns 'brutal' North Korea regime

President Trump slammed North Korea's "brutal regime" Monday after the death of college student Otto Warmbier, who was released by the communist nation in a coma last week.

June 19, 2017

The UN helps Assad rebuild, as he continues the carnage

EXCLUSIVE: As the Syria regime of Bashar al-Assad grinds out a piecemeal victory in ravaged areas of resistance, the United Nations faces a new challenge: how, and with whom, it will help the regime rebuild -- and in the process might further help to consolidate Assad’s sway.

June 15, 2017

Trump's Cuba policy would bar commerce with military-tied business, enforce travel rules

President Trump will announce efforts to restrict U.S. companies from doing business with Cuban ventures controlled by that country's military and strictly enforce rules on Americans traveling to the Communist nation, according to a memo seen by Fox News.

June 12, 2017

‘Tear down this wall’: Reagan’s Berlin wall speech, 30 years later

The Berlin Wall was built with the assistance of the Soviets to keep people in East Germany – where they had established a Communist dictatorship -- from escaping.

June 9, 2017

Peacekeeper battalion in Central African Republic challenges UN 'war' on sexual abuse

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who in March vowed an all-out war on the plague of sexual abuse by U.N.-sponsored peacekeepers in vulnerable, strife-torn nations, is apparently locked in a major, closed-door chapter in that campaign—a struggle he so far does not appear to have won.

May 24, 2017

Chinese activist’s US residency won't slow his human rights work

While nobody would have faulted Chen for taking a much needed break after years of fighting against forced abortions under China’s one-child policy, corrupt officials and the mistreatment of the disabled, he is not one to rest on his laurels.

May 18, 2017

Trump administration sanctions Venezuela Supreme Court

The Trump administration Thursday imposed sanctions on members of Venezuela's Supreme Court following a series of rulings that the U.S. says has usurped power from the nation's opposition-controlled congress and sparked a deadly wave of unrest.