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Democrats on House Arms Sales Task Force Introduce Bill to Prevent Use of U.S. Weapons in War Crimes

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WHAT:The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Arms Sales Task Force introduced a bill called the Silver Shield Operational End Use Monitoring Act (Silver Shield Act of 2025) to monitor whether U.S. defense articles are used to...more

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EU reconsiders its free trade agreement with Israel due to the war in Gaza

EU foreign ministers have decided to explore the possibility of cancelling the EU-Israel Association Agreement due to allegations that the war in Gaza is raising doubts concerning Israel’s commitment to the safeguarding of...more

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Trump Administration Announces Department of State Restructuring

On April 22, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a plan to implement across-the-board structural changes to the Department of State to bring the department in line with President Trump’s America First foreign policy...more

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[Podcast] Oil, Opulence, and One Crystal-Encrusted Michael Jackson Glove

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Join hosts Tatiana Sainati and Diana Shaw as they delve into the harrowing history of corruption and violence in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Discover how a single political family managed to siphon off the nation's...more

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Exception to Refugee Ban: Addressing Egregious Actions of South Africa

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President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14204, “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” on Feb. 7, 2025, creating an exception to the refugee ban, driven by concerns over South Africa’s...more

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Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support...

Orders the reevaluation of the United States’ commitment to three United Nations (UN) organizations: the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC); the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the UN Relief...more

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Geneva Insights - February 2025

International Geneva – A global governance ecosystem of over 40 international organizations, 178 country representations and 700+ non-governmental organizations....more

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U.S.-Cuba Policy Whiplash

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The United States has enacted several volatile rounds of Cuba policy changes since the start of this year, as incoming Trump administration officials moved on January 20, 2025, to reverse measures enacted less than a week...more

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Current State of U.S. Export Controls in Response to the Russian Federation’s Invasion of Ukraine - May 2024

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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. ...more

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UK Weekly Sanctions Update - Week of February 19, 2024

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In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world. ...more

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Risk to Israeli Entities Posed by International Sanctions – What Is the Exposure and What Are the Dangers?

The executive order signed by United States President Joseph Biden in February 2024 states that the violence being committed by Israeli settlers has reached intolerable levels; poses a serious threat to peace, security, and...more

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A Practical Guide to Compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (“UFLPA”)

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On December 31, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed the the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (“UFLPA”) into law to address the ongoing exploitation of the ethnic minority Uyghur population by the government of the...more

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US House Committee Proposes Reset to US - China Economic Relationship

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On December 12, 2023, the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (“Select Committee”) released a report titled “Reset, Prevent, Build: A Strategy to Win America’s Economic Competition with the Chinese...more

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The Department of Commerce Enhances Focus on Human Rights

The United States took two significant actions last week to cement its stance that protecting human rights around the globe is a central U.S. national security and foreign policy interest in export control policy and...more

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Biden Administration Seeks to Promote U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Objectives Through its Revised Conventional Arms...

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WHAT: On February 23, 2023, the same day three major defense industry trade associations publicly released their report to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Tiger Team on modernizing the FMS...more

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OFAC sanctions Iranian officials for serious human rights abuses

On March 8, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions, pursuant to Executive Orders 13553 and 13846, against several Iranian regime officials and entities for serious human...more

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Canadian Sanctions Update: Russia, Belarus, Iran and Haiti Face New Restrictions

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In this post we describe the economic sanctions imposed by Canada since our October 5, 2022 update. While the latest sanctions on Russia, Belarus and Iran are largely incremental extensions of existing measures, a new...more

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The Biden Administration’s Moves to Take on China

The past decade has seen a pattern shift with how the U.S. views China, and our corresponding actions have changed the U.S.-Sino relationship from competition to adversarial. The U.S. believes China has acted counter to...more

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Preparing for the U.S.-African Leaders Summit in December

From Dec. 13–15, President Biden will host heads of state and leaders from across the African continent for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. The summit, which was formally announced by President Biden in...more

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Canada Imposes New Sanctions on Iran in Relation to Human Rights Violations and Iran’s Actions That Have Resulted or Are Likely to...

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In this post we describe the sanctions recently imposed by Canada on Iranian individuals and entities following the detention and, according to the Canadian government, apparent killing of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman, in...more

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The Australian Parliament Enacts Magnitsky-style Laws

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Australia's Existing Autonomous Sanctions Regime - Australia's existing autonomous sanctions regime is set out in the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 (Cth) ("Act")....more

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President Biden Signs New Law Requiring U.S. Blockage of All Imports Made Wholly or Partly in Xinjiang, China

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President Biden signed into law on December 23 legislation that will, for the first time, require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) to detain all imports that are made wholly or partly in the Xinjiang Uyghur...more

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OFAC Implements New Ethiopia Sanctions Program

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On November 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), pursuant to Executive Order 14046, Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons With Respect to the Humanitarian and Human Rights...more

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Biden Executive Order Strengthens and Expands U.S. Sanctions on Chinese Military Companies

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President Biden has signed an Executive Order effective August 2, 2021, affirming and expanding U.S. policy restricting the purchase and sale of publicly traded securities of listed Chinese companies with a nexus to China's...more

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US Investment Ban Targeting Companies Deemed Linked to Chinese Military Expanded to Chinese Surveillance Technology Sector

A new executive order (the “EO”) signed by President Biden on June 3, 2021, amends existing prohibitions on US investments in companies that the US government has determined support the military of the People’s Republic of...more

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