Essential Proposals to the Biden Administration to Advance International Justice
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President Joe Biden has been blunt about the enormity of the challenge that his and other democratic governments face in this era of rising authoritarianism. “This is a battle between the utility of democracies in the twenty-first century and autocracies,” he said in his first White House press conference. “That’s what’s at stake here. We’ve got to prove democracy works.”
Values are back, and not only on the domestic front. Biden’s administration will place greater emphasis on defending human rights around the world, including in China and Russia. He wants humanitarian need to figure in military strategy and has withdrawn U.S. support for offensive measures by the Saudi-led coalition fighting against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is now home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. He wants the United States to live up to its legal and moral commitments and has restored some rights to asylum seekers.
actually sent too the u.n. from that group and said they express their deep concern about the unacceptable performance of the united nations humanitarian system. your thoughts on that open letter and those concerns? well, that s right. they repeated that in testimony yesterday. they were very concerned that the u.n. was slow to act. in our own government we have something called the atrocities prevention board created after the rwanda genocide, the united states government failed to respond in a timely way to the report in the direction of having a focus on this important issue and making sure that we support and press the u.n. to be more
not endorse the sins of their predecessors. we have nothing to apologize for. so you don t have any in mind now that we have committed or sponsors? i will not aipo poll guise for america. i will stand very proudly if confirmed behind the u.s. placard. i understand, but do you believe the united states has committed or sponsored crimes? i believe the united states is the greatest country on earth. power one, a pulitzer prize for writing about u.s. failures to prevent genocide. she argued passionately for the clinton administration to intervene in rwanda and help convince president obama to intervene in libya to overthrow muammar gaddafi, shep. shepard: helps president obama create a new organization called the atrocities prevention board it includes officials from the cia, the state department, justice department, and other government agencies. members say they meet once a month to talk about ways to prevent genocide and other atrocities. ed snowden now, he could be out of
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