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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 14, 2020
Women and Women's Rights
Gender Advisors Key to Effective Policy
The proposed revisions to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy have received a lot of attention since being released for public comment…
December 3, 2014
Alan Gross, Year Six
Today Alan Gross will begin his sixth year in a Cuban prison. His "crime" was to deliver to the minuscule Cuban Jewish community some communications equipment supplied by the United States. The Cuba…
December 17, 2014
Cuba
What Did President Obama Trade for Alan Gross?
There is wonderful news this morning: that Alan Gross is finally free, out of a Cuban prison and back on American soil. For his family, this is the answer to prayers and the right outcome to a long s…
November 16, 2012
Cuba
Alan Gross, Vilma Castro, and America’s Cuba Policy
Alan Gross is a former USAID contractor who has been in a Cuban jail since December 3, 2009. The most recent reports are that he has lost 105 pounds while in prison, and may well be suffering from u…
July 27, 2011
Cuba
Key Days in Our Hostage Crises
Decisions will be coming in the next few days in the cases of our hostages in Cuba and in Iran. In Cuba, the “Supreme Peoples Court” heard the appeal of Alan Gross last Friday and should be announci…