So-called human rights might involve desirable ends—but they cannot be allowed to claim the mantle of a natural right.| The American Mind
Trump officials' targeting of noncitizen students at US universities has impacted student press freedom. The Stanford Daily is fighting back.| The Dissenter
After much delay, Marco Rubio’s State Department finally released the 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, known internally as the Human Rights Reports (HRRs). These congressionally mandated reports are usually published in early spring about the events of the previous year. In addition to the significant lag in their release, the 2024 reports are drastically shorter and cover a much narrower range of human rights abuses than in previous years. They no longer include prison condi...| Responsible Statecraft
As Jerusalem looks to change war tactics, Washington defers| Responsible Statecraft
The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, nearly 1500 employeesR…| The Duck of Minerva
The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an u…| Techdirt
Editor’s note: On April 4, The Associated Press reported that two UT Austin graduates, who remained in the U.S. to work as permitted by their student visas, had their student visas revoked. The Texan has not independently verified this report. Multiple international students studying at UT have experienced a change in their visa status, University...| The Daily Texan
Amid recent federal visa policy shifts, Northwestern’s Office of International Student and Scholar Services notified international students that international travel and visa renewal could become more difficult in a Thursday email obtained by The Daily. On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced it would pause all new interviews for student visa applicants. “If you plan to...| The Daily Northwestern
Levita Almuete Ferrer, a 64-year-old Maryland resident and former senior budget analyst in the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol, pleaded guilty to embezzling $657,347.50 from the agency between March 2022 and April 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., announced. Ferrer abused her signature authority over a State Department checking account, […]| based underground
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO), Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, that paused all foreign assistance disbursement and obligations to assess “programmatic efficiencies and consistency” with his foreign policy objectives. The foreign aid paused by this EO totaled more than $2 billion in foreign aid, […]| Global Equality Today
December 31, 2024 Dear Secretary of State Antony Blinken, It is a fact that as Vietnam has become increasingly repressive, the United States has given Hanoi a free pass on human rights. According to three former State Department officials interviewed by the Washington Post, the Biden administration has not made Hanoi’s intersifying […] The post Letter to Secretary Blinken re new wave of repression in Vietnam appeared first on Project88.| Project88
The US is urgently gathering information about the circumstances of the death of US citizen Aysrnur Egzi Eygi in the West Bank, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.| Sputnik International