Department of State

Biden pledged a foreign policy that would restore U.S. moral leadership. Ending U.S. complicity in human rights abuses, civilian harm, and humanitarian crises through the structural…

The Biden administration must create a system in which human rights and democracy policymaking is embedded and integrated in its decision-making machinery.

The U.S. President is undoubtedly the chief U.S. diplomat, but is he or she also the chief prosecutor? Donald Trump clearly thinks so, stating once his grave misunderstanding that…

The Biden administration should use the March gathering to highlight policies or programs to advance gender equality at home and abroad.

It’s time to develop a risk management framework for the U.S.' civilian national security workforce to enable them to do their jobs despite the unprecedented risks they now face.

Given the control that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party wields over the judiciary, their odds of getting a fair trial are slim.

What better way of protecting the truth than by offering a safe haven for journalists who risk their lives to inform us.

The task demands accountability for the ethical scandals that have occurred at State during the Trump administration and a public commitment to rebuilding the infrastructure, including…

Last in a series of top experts exploring proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government, public integrity, and rule of law.

A compilation of executive branch positions deprived of competence and expertise, and filled instead with political loyalists.

States, regions, and cities are already on the frontlines, as in the pandemic. The federal government should support these contacts for the global future.

The practice of the Trump administration turning its back on rights at the United Nations goes well beyond the Human Rights Council.