For the last two years, an unlikely bipartisan coterie of Cold Warriors have banded together to pursue the ambitious goal of deep nuclear-weapons reductions by the United States and a comprehensive international regime for nonproliferation. The goals of the crew — former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former Sen. More…
By a unanimous vote, a session of the United Nations Security Council chaired by President Obama has approved Security Council Resolution 1887, a measure to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The White House sent around this factsheet to reporters.
Two parties. Two widely different reactions to the Obama administration’s announcement Tuesday that the United States will seek a spot on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he “strongly” supports the move, arguing that the panel has become More…
Bush-era envoys to the United Nations are trying to block global efforts to promote HIV/AIDS-prevention programs such as needle exchanges, according to health and human rights advocates who supplied documents of the negotiations. The envoys’ opposition runs directly counter to the stated position of President Obama, who supports lifting a More…
The United States could be the first Western nation in recent years to try a prisoner for war crimes allegedly committed as a child.
So says the ACLU, which is calling on the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and the U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed More…
One of the world’s most distinguished diplomats lent support to the emerging idea that Afghanistan’s government needs to negotiate with Taliban insurgents to bring peace to the South Asian country.
“We have to ask [ourselves?] what to do with them,” said Lakhdar Brahimi, the Algerian diplomat who served as the More…
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