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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]
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The U.S. paid Panama $10 million and later a $250,000 annuity for the rights. Many Panamanians condemned the treaty as an infringement on their newfound sovereignty.
The SRC urged whites, particularly those with more liberal political attitudes, to help black people obtain equal rights. Like the CIC before it, the SRC was a coalition of lawyers, Christian ministers, and newspaper editors from thirteen southern states. Although the group was bi-racial and included both men and women, the majority of its ...
A top government watchdog raised concerns Tuesday over the handling of leak investigations during the first Trump administration that targeted members of Congress and the media despite finding no ...
Lawmakers could get as high as a $6,600 pay raise as part of a short-term government funding bill that's set to get a vote this week.
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.