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RIGHTS-US: Congress Passes Sweeping Labour Anti-Trafficking Law
A new law that will toughen penalties against international trafficking of women and children for sex or other forms of forced labour swept through both houses of Congress here this week.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Spiralling Crisis, Terrorist Attack Threaten Decade of US Strategy
The sudden worsening in the two-week- old Israeli-Palestinian crisis and the apparent suicide attack Thursday on a US naval vessel docked at a Yemeni port for re-fuelling have highlighted the degree to which more than a decade of US policy initiatives in the Middle East, including the Oslo peace process, are now at risk.POLITICS-US/LIBERIA: Washington Imposes Visa Sanctions Against Taylor, Cronies
US President Bill Clinton Wednesday announced diplomatic sanctions against Liberian President Charles Taylor, his family, and closest aides, barring them from entering the United States until they end their support for rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone.POLITICS-US/NORTH KOREA: Clinton Welcomes Top Military Official at White House
In a visit billed as "historic," US President Bill Clinton Tuesday welcomed North Korea's top military official to the White House to open two days of unprecedented high-level talks between the two Cold-War foes.POLITICS-US/CUBA: Profit First, People Second, as Embargo Erodes
The Republican leadership of the US Congress has bowed to both farm interests and the still-powerful anti-Castro lobby by clearing a bill that would conditionally permit US companies to sell food to Cuba and codify existing curbs on US travel there.IMMIGRATION-US: Foreign Computer Nerds Welcome; Latinos Go Elsewhere
In a measure of the fast-growing political clout of the hi-tech industry, a bill that will permit companies to import almost 200,000 highly skilled foreign workers has swept through the US Congress with scarcely a single dissent.POLITICS-US/YUGOSLAVIA: Washington Cheers from Sidelines
Top US politicians, from President Bill Clinton downward, are hailing events in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and redoubling their calls on President Slobodan Milosevic to recognise his election defeat and step down.RIGHTS: Transparency International Honours Whistleblowers
Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption group, will present integrity awards at their annual meeting this weekend to whistleblowers from Morocco, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Argentina who have exposed government wrongdoing at great risk to themselves./REPEATING FOR POINTS NEEDING/RIGHTS-PERU/US: Rights Groups Deplore US Role in Montesinos’ Departure
US human rights groups, echoing their counterparts in Peru, have voiced outrage at the role played by Washington and the Organisation of American States (OAS) in persuading Panama to take in Peruvian intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.HEALTH-US: Anti-Tobacco Activists Add Video to Arsenal Before Framework Talks
Anti-tobacco activists have added a new weapon to their arsenal in advance of next month's negotiations in Geneva for a global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).POLITICS-US/INDONESIA: Washington’s Patience Running Out
Senior US government officials are actively considering steps, including moving to postpone next month's donors' meeting for Indonesia, if the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid does not follow through on a pledge to disarm militia forces in West Timor and take strong measures to improve a deteriorating human-rights situation throughout the archipelago.RIGHTS-US: Government Admits Racism “Persistent” in First Report to UN
Five years overdue, the United States Thursday released its first report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), admitting that racial discrimination remains a "persistent" problem for the country.POLITICS-US/Peru: Fujimori’s Moves Called “Good Beginning”
The US State Department Monday hailed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's stunning weekend call for new elections and the dissolution of the National Intelligence Service (SIN) "a good beginning" toward strengthening democracy and urged all parties to return as soon as possible to a political dialogue overseen by the Organisation of American States (OAS).RIGHTS-U.S.: Asian Americans Want More Answers in Spy Case
Asian Americans have expressed relief at Wednesday's release of a Taiwan-born physicist charged with downloading classified nuclear secrets, but they believe the U.S. government still has a lot of explaining to do.RIGHTS-U.S.: Asian Americans Want More Answers in Spy Case
Asian Americans have expressed relief at Wednesday's release of a Taiwan-born physicist charged with downloading classified nuclear secrets, but they believe the U.S. government still has a lot of explaining to do.TRADE-US/CHINA: Senate Clears Major Barrier to Trade Pact
In a major victory for big US business and President Bill Clinton, the Senate Wednesday voted to set aside a key amendment to a bill that would establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China.FINANCE-MALI: World Bank, IMF Give Green Light for Debt Relief
Mali, one of the world's poorest nations, has won 220 million dollars in debt-service relief and is on track for receiving another 650 million dollars in relief if it meets certain conditions set out by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the two Washington-based agencies announced Tuesday.ECONOMY-BURMA: Rights Victims Will Appeal US Court Dismissal
Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses committed by the military regime in Burma will appeal a Los Angeles judge's recent ruling that they cannot sue a US oil company which allegedly knew about and benefited directly from the regime's conduct.POLITICS-US: Odds Long – But Not Out of Sight – For Early Return to U NESCO
When former President Ronald Reagan suspend ed US membership in the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultur al Organisation (UNESCO) in 1984, few observers thought that Washington would still be out 16 years later.RIGHTS-INDONESIA: US May Freeze Renewed Military Ties
The administration of US President Bill Clinton is once again breaking off military ties with the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) as a result of recent violence which has claimed the lives of several UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers, and a US-based human-rights activist.ARMS-US: Clinton Leaves Anti-Missile System Decision to Successor
US President Bill Clinton Friday announced that he will leave to his successor the decision on deploying a controversial anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defence system that Russia, China, and some US allies steadfastly oppose.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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