Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla fighter who spent ten years running with a murderous Marxist insurgent gang in the 1970s, turned against his ideological fellow traveler Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Thursday.
The conflict has inflicted horrendous destruction and loss of life, and staggering amounts of money have been poured into Ukraine’s defense by the Western world, but neither side is making much progress toward victory or a negotiated peace settlement.
Two members of the House subcommittee on Africa, Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), on Wednesday asked President Joe Biden to halt a $1 billion arms sale to Nigeria due to humanitarian abuses, including the Nigerian military allegedly killing children and running a near-genocidal illegal abortion program.
Led by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) on the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 “anti-dictatorial” revolution, House lawmakers introduced a broad bipartisan resolution in support of a free, democratic, secular, and non-nuclear republic in Iran, with over 160 cosponsors.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign affairs announced on Wednesday that the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” will send 10 million Afghanis in aid (about $111,000) to Turkey, and half that amount to Syria, “on the basis of shared humanity and Islamic brotherhood” after Monday’s extremely destructive earthquakes.
On a night when the sports media was more interested in celebrating LeBron James than drawing attention to his moral hypocrisy and failures (which is pretty much every night, but this one had historical significance), Enes Kanter Freedom did the job the media won’t do for themselves.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported this week that sub-Saharan Africa has become “the new global epicenter of violent extremism,” accounting for half of the world’s terrorism-related deaths last year. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Mali, one of the four African nations with the highest number of terrorism deaths, in a bid to extend Moscow’s influence over Africa by helping the ruling junta fight jihadi rebels.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday held a commissioning ceremony for the first of four massive oil rigs operated by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
Radical leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva encouraged his Latin American counterparts to treat the violent, terrorist-linked dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela with “great affection” on Monday.
The world’s most prestigious sporting institutions dove headfirst into a return to normal following two years of pandemic rules in 2022 – with the help of some of the planet’s most egregious human rights abusers.
The U.N. Security Council issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Taliban for excluding women from universities and banning them from working for humanitarian groups.
The Conversation Africa on Wednesday reported on a disturbing trend in Kenya: a spike in the number of female genital mutilations (FGM) performed during the long winter holiday season, which this year runs from November to January.
No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.
Iran was expelled from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) on Wednesday in a vote initiated by the United States.
The White House on Monday announced $55 billion in economic aid, health care, and security support for Africa. President Joe Biden hosted a meeting for African leaders that began on Tuesday, during which the White House promised more details of the massive benefits package would be divulged.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Wednesday commended the protesters in China fighting back against the totalitarian state’s “zero COVID” policy, noting that the people are speaking up in face of the Chinese Communist Party’s “consistent violation of human rights.”
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) paid a brief, but extremely lucrative, visit to South Korea on November 16, signing about $75 billion worth of investment agreements in less than 24 hours.
A report published by Hong Kong Watch and Professor Laura T. Murphy of the University of Sheffield Hallam on Monday found that dozens of American, British, and Canadian state pension funds are passively invested in Chinese companies that face credible accusations of enslaving Uyghur Muslims.
COVID lockdown rules employed in one German state that banned people from leaving their homes for reasons other than exercise, work, food or a medical appointment were illegal, a court in the country has ruled.
The Mideast Islamist state of Qatar has faced years of criticism for its widely documented human rights abuses and accusations of bribery after FIFA awarded it the hosting rights to this year’s World Cup soccer tournament.
Chinese state media on Monday enthusiastically promoted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, blithely ignoring human rights concerns swirling around the controversial event.
The Iranian national soccer team defied its theocratic rulers on Monday by refusing to sing the “national anthem” at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Harry and Meghan are to receive a human rights award for fighting “structural racism” within the UK royal family from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s socialist regime released an official statement on Wednesday rejecting global disgust with FIFA, the international soccer organization, for naming the repressive Islamist state of Qatar the 2022 World Cup host.
Authorities in Qatar intercepted a live broadcast on Tuesday evening by Danish television reporter Rasmus Tantholdt, in the country to cover the upcoming FIFA World Cup, and appeared to physically threaten him and his film crew, going so far as to threaten to smash their camera.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with various world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, prominently including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea.
Chinese state media portrayed Monday’s meeting between dictator Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, as an unreserved triumph for Xi.
Abortion groups utilized arguments about personal freedom to convince many moderate voters to turn against pro-life measures.
Montana voters rejected a ballot initiative during the midterm elections that would have mandated that infants who are born alive, including those who survive botched abortions, are legal persons entitled to life-saving medical care.
A gay man identified only as “Ali” told the British newspaper i that a dating attempt in Qatar, set to host this month’s FIFA World Cup, ended with police officers gang-raping and ultimately deporting him.
Religious freedom champion Nina Shea warned Tuesday that the U.S. lacks the necessary resolve to counter Xi Jinping’s “ideological war” on the West.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, complained on Tuesday that his country has faced unfair criticism for its abusive labor practices in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament, which begins on November 20.
Qatar’s preparations to host the FIFA World Cup beginning on November 20 are drawing complaints from labor and human rights activists, who say the authoritarian Islamist government is abusing immigrant workers and arbitrarily detaining homosexuals.
Civilians in Ethiopia — both within the blockaded northern region of Tigray and throughout the country — are facing rape, executions, torture, beatings, and the abduction of their children to be used as child soldiers, harrowing reports out of the country revealed this week.
Iran Human Rights (IHR), a group based in Oslo, Norway, said on Tuesday that at least 201 people have been killed during the Iranian regime’s “bloody crackdown” on the Mahsa Amini uprising.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and likely next Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticised a French minister over remarks that France may monitor the country for violations of rights and freedoms.
CARACAS – Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied on Thursday that the Biden Administration is seeking to provide sanctions relief to Venezuela’s socialist regime – while tacitly legitimizing dictator Nicolás Maduro by promoting the idea of holding “free and fair” elections against him in 2024.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday that the 2022 Peace Prize will be awarded to Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and two organizations, Memorial of Russia and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.
Regime thugs from Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela who brutalized dissidents at home are living off of government benefits in America and “no official process exists” to identify and deport them, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in an interview this weekend.
France’s Prime Minister has threatened that the EU will be “vigilant” towards any threat to its pro-abortion regime after Italy’s historic general election.
