The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Keep Reading
CBP determined that stevia extracts and derivatives produced using convict, forced, or indentured labor by Inner Mongolia Hengzheng Group Baoanzhao Agriculture, Industry, and Trade Co., Ltd. (Baoanzhao) are being, or are likely to be, imported into the United States in violation of 19 U.S.C. 1307. Keep Reading
The products subject to the WROs are produced with state-sponsored forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the Chinese government is engaged in systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities. Keep Reading
Local authorities in northern Syria have failed to advance efforts to find people kidnapped by ISIS more than a year after its territorial defeat in Syria, Human Rights Watch said. Keep Reading
The draft law reportedly covers four main crimes: succession, subversion of state power, local terrorist activities, and collaborating with foreign or external foreign forces to endanger national security. Keep Reading
In March 2018, CBP formally established its Forced Labor Division in the Office of Trade, but told GAO that they "do not have the resources to gather firsthand information on labor practices." Keep Reading
In 2017, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) St. Paul arrested Zinnah for immigration violations and violating the terms of his parole into the U.S. HSI St. Paul’s investigation revealed Zinnah was a member of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). Keep Reading
It's not just a problem in conflict zones, but among extremist groups and drug-running gangs. Keep Reading
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a federal crime, and any involvement in committing this crime is a serious human rights violation, which may result in imprisonment and potential removal from the United States. Keep Reading
The proposed bill and the sanctions should signal a positive shift across the international community’s efforts to rally public condemnation in lending credibility to victims' claims in the face of the Assad regime’s atrocities. Keep Reading
Since 2003, ICE has arrested more than 450 individuals for human rights-related violations of the law under various criminal and immigration statutes. Keep Reading
Samayoa Cabrera, a former civil patrol leader, has been charged in Guatemala for his alleged role in more than 150 human rights abuses, including torture, rape and extrajudicial killing, in El Quichè. Keep Reading
Under U.S. law, it is illegal to import goods into the U.S that are made wholly or in part by forced labor, which includes convict labor, indentured labor. Keep Reading
Human rights advocate and former Human Rights First CEO Elisa Massimino is joining Georgetown Law as the 2019-2020 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights while Navy Judge Advocate Capt. Todd Huntley joins the Law Center as the National Security Law Program Director and Lecturer in Law. Keep Reading
The first time Majid and Ahlam saved a gay person’s life, they didn't even know what LGBT stood for. Word had reached them that three men were being held. Keep Reading
"Sitting in the middle level of a three-tiered bunk bed in a small room, he cannot even straighten his back," reports wife of Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang. Keep Reading
The Islamic Republic has directly been inflicting its own brand of terror through its ongoing, brutal practice of hostage-taking. Keep Reading
Former sex slaves have found telling of captivity so retraumatizing that they decided it was better to stay silent. Keep Reading
Security versus civil liberties. How to safeguard the population from the actions of terrorists, while at the same time preserving fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, movement and association? Keep Reading
Currently, the 50-member team leverages the knowledge and expertise of a select group of agents, lawyers, intelligence specialists, criminal research specialists and historians who direct the agency’s broader enforcement efforts against these offenders. Keep Reading