December 31, 2016 Obama levies sanctions on 7 Venezuelan officials President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials Monday, accusing them of perpetrating human rights violations and public corruption in the socialist-governed South American nation.
December 30, 2016 Congressional critics ready to block Obama push to normalize Cuban relations The historic plan announced by President Obama on Wednesday to normalize relations with Cuba was met with heavy bipartisan resistance on Capitol Hill, raising questions of whether Congress will even consider easing a more than 50-year trade embargo against the communist state -- let alone end it.
December 5, 2016 UN apologizes for Haiti’s cholera epidemic without noting it brought the disease United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon has ended—sort of-- six years of UN stonewalling over Haiti’s mammoth cholera epidemic with a weak apology.
October 27, 2016 Blood and war: How a UN agency cooperates with Assad EXCLUSIVE: The United Nations’ World Health Organization, which claims “impartiality and independence from external sources and authorities” in its operations, has been quietly cooperating with Syria’s murderous Assad regime in one of the ugliest aspects of its civil war: the weaponization of blood.
October 27, 2016 Haiti cholera scandal: US bolsters UN wall of denial, legal investigator says The United Nations’ wall of denial about its responsibility for causing Haiti’s 6-year-old cholera epidemic is stronger than ever -- and a U.N. human rights expert has put the focus directly on the Obama administration for helping to keep the barrier in place.
August 19, 2016 UN stonewall on Haiti cholera epidemic starts to crumble The United Nations’ wall of denial concerning its responsibility for Haiti’s six-year-old cholera epidemic—and claims of diplomatic immunity regarding the consequences-- appears to be crumbling.
July 6, 2016 US punishing North Korean leader for human rights abuses The U.S. is imposing sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other top officials for human rights abuses.
May 27, 2016 Patent scandal: US outmaneuvered on UN agency investigation The only United Nations agency ever sanctioned by the U.S. State Department for failing to protect whistle-blowers has just done it again—and left the Obama Administration outmaneuvered and outfoxed in the process, at least so far.
May 24, 2016 Obama calls for greater freedoms in Vietnam after lifting arms embargo President Barack Obama on Tuesday pressed Vietnam to allow greater freedoms for its citizens, arguing that better human rights would improve the communist country's economy, stability and regional power.
May 4, 2016 UN investigators said to take nude photo, ask about prostitution in under-age rape case United Nations peacekeeping investigators looking into alleged sex crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) have asked under-age girls if they were prostitutes and taken at least one photo of an alleged victim naked as evidence, according to an independent official with direct knowledge of the cases, Fox News has learned.
