South Sudan (NFA) – “No concerted effort” has been made by any of the warring parties in South Sudan to adhere to a ceasefire in the country, instead there has been an escalation in the conflict there, the head of the…
There’s a movement afoot in Congress to stop U.S. military support for the Saudi war in Yemen.
On September 8, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Al Franken (D-MN) introduced a bipartisan resolution, SJ Res 39, to disapprove the $1.15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia notified to Congress on August 8. New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich joined SJ Res 39 as a co-sponsor on September 13.
A Senate vote on this resolution is currently expected this week, as early as Tuesday. A broad coalition of human rights and peace advocates, including Oxfam, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Win Without War coalition (of which Just Foreign Policy is a member) is lobbying senators to vote in favor of the resolution of disapproval. Some of these groups sent a joint letter to Congress urging rejection of the arms deal.
The US should allow a UN Security Council resolution that includes an end date for the Israeli occupation.
Bogota, Colombia (nsnbc) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos rejected a renewed call for a bilateral ceasefire from Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC-EP. While Santos stressed the “complexity of the conditions in Colombia”, the FARC peace delegates assert that a bilateral…
