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GENEVA (20 May 2021) – A UN human rights expert today welcomed the announcement of a new set of government sanctions against Myanmar’s junta by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, highlighting in particular the US designation of the ...

Gaza Tests Biden Foreign Policy Teams Promise To Learn From Obama-Era Mistakes No Biden staffers who signed a letter regretting Obamas Yemen policy would say on the record how the administrations support of Israels bombardment is different. Two years before Joe Biden won the presidency, 30 national security experts who worked with him under President Barack Obama published a high-profile mea culpa. They called their policy of supporting the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen a “failu...

By only naming Hamas's actions, Biden reinforced the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence.

Saturday, 8 May 2021, 4:53 pm GENEVA (7 May 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today welcomed the call by a broad number of civil society organizations to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar’s military junta, and encouraged States to take their own actions immediately. “Stopping the flow of weapons and dual-use weapons technology into the hands of the military junta of Myanmar is literally a matter of life and death. There is no tim...

Myanmar: UN expert urges States to impose arms embargo GENEVA (7 May 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today welcomed the call by a broad number of civil society organizations to impose an arms embargo on Myanmars military junta, and encouraged States to take their own actions immediately. "Stopping the flow of weapons and dual-use weapons technology into the hands of the military junta of Myanmar is literally a matter of life an...

Anti-War Group Releases Activist Guide to End Militarized Policing in US Stop Militarizing Our Communities: 5 Things You Need to Know About the 1033 Program. The activist guide was authored by Tanaya Sardesai, a student at Pomona College and a former intern at Win Without War, and centers on the Department of Defense’s 1033 program, which is responsible for supplying military weaponry to domestic law enforcement. “Foreign policy and domestic policy are intertwined,” said Sardesai. “Vi...

For US progressives, Joe Biden has both surprised and disappointed The president has exceeded some expectations, but also fallen short on issues ranging from student debt to the climate crisis.   In his first 100 days in office, US President Joe Biden has moved more quickly, boldly and progressively, than his earlier record in the Senate and as vice-president might have foretold. In January 2021, Biden said the US would reverse a stalled vaccination roll-out by delivering 100 million dose...

Miaan Group on a letter—signed by 43 partner organizations like J Street, MoveOn and Physicians for Social Responsibility—to urge President Biden to provide urgently-needed sanctions relief for the people of Iran as they combat another deadly wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 65,000 Iranians have already died as a result of the pandemic — a tragic figure made worse by the fact that sanctions have made the crisis far worse.

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Latest McCollum bill attempts to regulate aid to Israel Five other members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors so far Preston Keres/USDA Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) speaks during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 2019. By Share A new bill sponsored by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), a longtime critic of U.S. Israel policy, seeks to add restrictions on U.S. aid to Israel. The legislation, which was first reported by The Hill on Wednesday and h...