Human Rights - Page 72

December 20, 2015

Amid ‘disaster of Biblical proportions,’ administration reportedly to accept 5,000 more refugees

In response to international calls to help ease the burden of the Syrian refugee crisis, the Obama administration reportedly is prepared to increase the number of refugees the U.S. resettles -- by roughly 5,000.

December 20, 2015

Activists want US to do more to help Christians fleeing ISIS

Advocates are calling for the U.S. government to do more to help hundreds of thousands of Middle East Christians fleeing ISIS, many of whom are seeking help after  escaping situations in which they are often forced to either convert to Islam or die, or risk being sold into slavery.

December 20, 2015

White House reportedly warns China over tactics by agents pressing expatriates to return

The Obama administration reportedly has warned the Chinese government to stop sending intelligence agents to the U.S. in an effort to persuade Chinese expatriates to return to their home country. 

December 20, 2015

State Dept, Pentagon push back on reports of US-trained fighters being abducted, killed in Syria

The State Department and Pentagon pushed back Friday on claims made by multiple media outlets that the leader of a U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group and as many as 60 other fighters under him were abducted and killed by al-Nusra, an Al Qaeda offshoot operating in that country.

December 20, 2015

Kerry: Captive Americans raised at all meetings with Iran

Secretary of State John Kerry says there was "not one meeting that took place" during the recent Iranian nuclear talks at which the U.S. didn't raise the issue of four Americans still held captive by Tehran.

December 20, 2015

Bangladesh bans Islamist group accused of killing bloggers

Bangladesh has banned a radical Islamist group accused of attacking and killing atheist bloggers and writers.

December 20, 2015

Congress sends anti-trafficking bill to Obama

The House approved long-awaited legislation on Tuesday to combat human trafficking, sending it to President Obama for his signature.

December 11, 2015

Sex and UN peacekeepers: Tens of thousands of Liberian women involved?

EXCLUSIVE: A study cited in a just-published evaluation of the ugly problem of sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers calculates that as many as 58,000 women in Monrovia, Liberia, alone engaged in prohibited “transactional” sex with peacekeepers in return for food, clothing, money or other favors—mostly money-- over a nine-year period ending in 2012.

December 10, 2015

UN peacekeeping and rape: getting better—or worse?

Even as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claims victory in the battle against sexual abuse by members of U.N. peacekeeping missions, a leaked U.N. internal report charges that peacekeepers are likely under-reporting sex crimes and exploitation, taking too long to investigate them, and clinging to a “culture of impunity”  that bolsters sexual misdeeds.

December 8, 2015

UN witness suddenly goes public in Central African peacekeeper sex scandal

A self-described United Nations whistle-blower has appeared -- very briefly -- with new revelations in the scandal over sexual abuse of children by non-U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.