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Myanmar, 'Arab Awakening' Top US List Of Progress On Human Rights
csmonitor.com 3 days, 2 hours agoState Department's annual report on human rights around the world also notes the important role that technology, the Internet, and social media play in advancing individual freedoms.
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US Debates 'Terrorist' Sanctions For Nigerian Militants
yahoo.com 1 day, 16 hours agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is debating the wisdom of designating the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram a "foreign terrorist organization" despite entreaties from lawmakers and the Justice Department to do so. U.S. diplomats are giving serious consideration to the arguments of a group of academics who sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week urging her department not to apply the "terrorist" label to the al Qaeda-linked group. ...










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