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Lawmakers push State Department nominee to crack down on human rights abuse if appointed

Lawmakers push State Department nominee to crack down on human rights abuse if appointed

by Lily Ogburn | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Dafna Hochman Rand, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to crack down on accountability for human rights violations in both adversarial and...
Experts Suggest ‘Strict’ Offensive Policies Needed to Deter Future Russian Aggression

Experts Suggest ‘Strict’ Offensive Policies Needed to Deter Future Russian Aggression

by Diego Ramos Bechara | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — Reverting to offensive policies — like direct economic sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s “cronies,” supporting investigative journalism and civil society actors — were some of the ways in which experts suggested lawmakers deter future Russian aggression in...
Heritage panel says U.S. ‘still in a state of war’ with al-Qaida

Heritage panel says U.S. ‘still in a state of war’ with al-Qaida

by Stephanie Haines | Feb 18, 2014 | National Security

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration should make it clear to U.S. citizens that the U.S. is still “at war” with al-Qaida, and that the conflict will not end soon, experts at a Heritage Foundation discussion said Tuesday. The basic point is that the government has...
Clinton calls for global business, awards P&G, Sahlman Seafoods

Clinton calls for global business, awards P&G, Sahlman Seafoods

by Shirley Li | Jan 18, 2012 | Business

WASHINGTON – A week after President Barack Obama encouraged insourcing jobs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton honored American companies Wednesday morning for building business abroad. At the Award for Corporate Excellence ceremony, Clinton recognized manufacturing...

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