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The Leahy Laws or Leahy amendments are U.S. human rights laws that prohibit the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity. [1] It is named after its principal sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont). [2]
The U.S. Southern Command was activated in 1963, emerging from the U.S. Caribbean Command, established in 1947. Last commander of the U.S. Caribbean Command from January 1961 to June 1963 and first commander of the U.S. Southern Command since June 1963 was Lieutenant General–later General–Andrew P. O'Meara. [23]
This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies.The specific problem is: both sourced and unsourced criticisms of the country's human rights record (major WP:UNDUE and WP:BALANCE issues; the article should not resemble a database for every possible criticism of the U.S. human rights record found on Google; instead, it should rely on reliable sources, preferably ...
Often partners with other groups involved in the civil rights movement, the SRC used communications and analysis to try to reach people through facts and education. It published literature related to racial justice, released studies on race relations , and acted as a think tank for issues concerning the movement.
A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S ...
Families of Israeli hostages held a rally in New York City's Central Park on Sunday, and called for President Biden and President-elect Trump to bring them home. "Seize the opportunity, seal the ...
Moon Seo-yeon is just 15 years old, but she was determined to join the rallies in Seoul on Wednesday, saying Yoon’s declaration of martial law was a “mistake” and showed a “complete lack ...
The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) (1938–1948) was an organization that sought to promote New Deal-type reforms to the South in terms of social justice, civil rights, and electoral reform. It folded due to funding problems and allegations of Communist sympathies; its successor was the former sub-group the Education Fund.