Department of State

The international community must recognize the links between the repression of women and the Taliban's support for violent extremism.

Are they meaningful if condemnation is followed blithely by economic engagement with the same actors who committed the violations?

This chronology shows selected developments on the issue of U.S. support to the ICC’s Ukraine investigation. The Defense Department's objection appears to stand in the way of…

China has a constructive role to play in easing tensions in the Middle East, alongside the United States.

Wrongful detention is a threat to US persons everywhere, and should be a top priority in domestic and foreign policy.

Failing to address their democratic deficiencies sets up the US and G7 for long-term strategic failure and hinders economic prosperity.

"The United States should know that it cannot successfully pursue its security interests in the Asia-Pacific region at the expense of the basic rights of its partners’ citizens."

There was a time when the US didn't promote human rights or even consider it much of an objective in foreign policy at all.

An ambassador responds to a colleague: release, with appropriate redaction, would support, not inhibit, State Department accountability.

Conflict prevention routinely takes a back seat to immediate crises, and will require resources and attention to legal and bureaucratic gaps.

Forcing release of such material would chill candor, intimidate potential dissenters from speaking up, and inject an element of gamesmanship.

In countering transnational repression, "[c]ivil litigation provides a pathway for holding ... authoritarian regimes directly accountable, not just their hired guns, if significant…