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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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July 15, 2022
Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: France Repatriates Fifty-One Women and Children From Syrian Detention Camps
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers July 2 to July 15.
November 22, 2019
South Africa
Protest Camp Outside UNHCR in South Africa Removed by Police
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has ended a sit-in at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) compound in the capital, Pretoria. Some two hundred people have been arrested, according to…
January 18, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian Air Force Mistakenly Bombs IDP Camp
There is heavy media attention to the Nigerian air force’s tragic, accidental bombing of a camp for internally displaced persons near Rann, in northeast Nigeria. Though details are hardly definitive,…
December 15, 2008
International Law
Problems in Closing Guantanamo Detention Camp
Matthew C. Waxman, a former Pentagon official overseeing detainee affairs, says the controversial camp at Guantanamo Bay should be closed but that doing so will raise several key questions about lega…
July 7, 2011
Iran
Massacre at Camp Ashraf: Implications for U.S. Policy
In testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Ray Takeyh says that mutual antipathy to the presence of the Iranian opposition party Mu…
August 15, 2023
Japan
U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Summit
CFR experts discuss the upcoming U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral summit at Camp David, as well as the countries’ shared challenges in the Indo-Pacific.
