by Juliann Ventura | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Topics
WASHINGTON – Members of Congress put aside their partisanship on Wednesday to meet with families of hostages held by Hamas, who called on them to continue their urgency in getting more hostages released. Hamas and Israel had released more than 250 hostages and...
by Juliann Ventura | Oct 8, 2023 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Social Justice
WASHINGTON– China and Russia both facilitate human rights violations in North Korea by evading international sanctions, forcing refugees back to North Korea and enabling human trafficking across the Chinese border, experts said at a Thursday webinar. “These two great...
by Pingping Yin | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON– Every few months over the last several years, there seemed to be a new low in recent U.S.-China relations. However, President Joe Biden’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Monday in Bali, Indonesia, signaled their openness to repair...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
Twenty women making soap in Idlib hope to expand their factory and increase their production in a bid to improve the living conditions of their families, which they provide for after losing their husbands in the Syrian war. Published in conjunction...
by Zoya Mirza | Dec 2, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Military
WASHINGTON –– China’s rapid economic, technological and military expansion over the past two decades poses serious competition and an imminent threat to the United States, according to the Secretary of the U.S. Army, Christine Wormuth. “We shouldn’t be seeking, in my...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists placed thousands of pairs of flip flops on the National Mall last weekend to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has resulted in more than 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the country. Demonstrators also lobbied for...