Although the United States and Colombia have cooperated in the past when providing to paramilitary assistance in pushing back the drug trade, the United States has overstepped their boundaries.
Aparna Alankar, Contributing Writer
• September 12, 2016
Laïcité clashes with the realities of modern day France and its growing Muslim community, and is increasingly being used to infringe upon the rights of Muslim citizens.
The Human Rights Council is responsible “for promoting universal respect for the protection of all human rights.” Given this responsibility, the election of Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and Russia is paradoxical.
Recent international reports of extensive civilian deaths in US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan serve as another tragic reminder of the civilian cost of targeted killings - and of the need for the US government to disclose the real number of causalities from drone attacks.
The decision to capture and try, rather than kill, suspected al-Qaeda leader and international criminal Anas al-Liby after last week's military raid in Tripoli is reflective of a growing positive trend against impunity.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has indicated a potential withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, which implies withdrawal from the European Union.
