human rights abuses

In African countries, however, the medical conditions associated with albinism do not pose the biggest risk.

The Ukrainian war, now in its second year, is affecting the world globally — including African countries.

Four clergymen, two seminarians and a diocesan journalist were convicted Jan. 26 in Nicaragua in a secretive trial on charges of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and spreading false information to local media.

The Oct. 5-6 peace conference at The Catholic University of America is the sixth in an annual series and the first on U.S. soil since 2017.

The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing sends “a strong and unequivocal message” to the Chinese government that its persecution of religious minorities will not be tolerated, said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

On May 22, 2021, the Biden administration granted eligible Haitian nationals living in the United States the chance to apply for a new 18-month TPS designation.

A congressional panel, during a May 18 hearing, weighed the possibility of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call attention to China’s long-standing human rights abuses.

The Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, which passed 413-1, also recommends a tougher U.S. response to the human rights abuses suffered by these religious minorities.