Thats a very very serious matter for the president if indeed its borne out that he had anything to do with directing the office of National Intelligence not to produce these documents and directing the Attorney Generals Office to it so it vies the office of National Intelligence because theres a me me thing britains Prime Minister bars johnson in london checked to me and been hunted down fannie and johnson were discussed developments in the gulf region. Or. So who had. A personal relationship with my peers ago i do business i do just the relationship because there is a very strong relationship. With us we wrote. A book you know for sure. Lets go to nadine barber joins us live from london so will they discuss. Also me just before Boris Johnsons meeting here at 10 downing street with the emir of qatar the Prime Minister said that relations between the 2 countries were going from strength to strength we havent got any detail after the meeting about what points they went through but the uk
Aspect of it and the sensitizing Police Officers and those within the judicial system to me i think we need more progressive policy interventions we know and in certain cases laws have been passed in other countries to to allow women to take time off work if they are busy leaving an abusive relationship so they dont have to be concerned about their job security mandisa pointed out earlier 70 random day. For a survivor of gender based violence visa v. What a prison or perpetrator gates. For a woman who may be economically dependent on her partner and has children even though they might be a desire to leave in a very intimate knowledge that i may die in this relationship the fear potentially also of whos going to look after my children. May keep a woman so to speak trapped in there in that situation last year i would say if we had a progressive policy agenda i would argue forests of edges. Program because we need to start changing the narrative about gender violence and fame aside it is
During the sino japanese war the japanese government engaged in a massive biological Weapons Program between 19401943 japan dropped hundreds of bombs infected with deadly germs on 11 chinese cities. As many as 200000 chinese citizens perished. They did initially the attacks on northern cities with plan to take and people did die and then later in the early part of the 1940 s. There were more aggressive attacks where they used anthrax planters colorado and other diseases. Martin for months is a United States pathologist with an interest in medical history in 1998. A colleague sent him a package containing autopsies performed on chinese victims years before i opened it up and they were page after page of these people murdered by biological weapons. It was the 1st time and one of the few times when i looking at it. I could feel palpable evil and there were. Docked with them and discovered that some of the victims of japanese bombing had survived in 2000 to travel today if it is called mak
Issues are still with us today. President jimmy carter signed the refugees act which raised the ceiling for refugees allowed in america. Held at the jimmy carter president ial library and museum in atlanta, this is an hour and a half. I want to lets get started again. Were going to start with our first panel. I will introduce the moderator, then she will introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce monica stadke. Shes with the raven group. I know monica from her time on the Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee where she focused on immigration and refugees issues. Also i know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hias, my organization. So with that, monica . Thank you very much. And thank you for being here. Thank you to mark for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hias in 1972. So i have a very personal connection. As counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, i worked closely on refug
For humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security council and most importantly on the highest board. He happened to be in the presence of Refugees International and is seated next to the next president of Refugees International is my pleasure to be here today and needless to say, this was a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of the 1980s but also the future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of people displaced by conflict, by human rights violations, by persecution is at the highest number in recorded history, governments around the world and the United States in particular and are using a rhetoric designed to appeal to fear and to encourage hostility towards refugees and others who are forced to flee. They are closing borders and making life more difficult for refugees. They would consider refugee protection issues in the context of implementation of the refugee act