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Significance With Bulgaria signing on October 23, 27 out of 30 NATO members have joined the pact, and only Bosnia-Hercegovina and Montenegro in the Balkans have not. According to the US State Department, the programme aims to safeguard data privacy, security and human rights from such “authoritarian malign actors” as the Chinese Communist Party. Impacts The time may have come for Balkans countries to evaluate their own needs, capabilities and interests, against what the big powers want. Signatory countries will start implementing Clean Network core principles, ultimately distancing themselves from China and Huawei. Chinese influence in the region takes various forms and will remain strong even if it loses the fight for the Balkan 5G market.


2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-187

The excerpt below is an overall assessment of Israel's and the PA's human rights record in the occupied territories from the introduction to the report's section dealing specifically with those areas. The full report is available on the State Department Web site at www.state.gov.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-134

This section, updated regularly on the blog Palestine Square, covers popular conversations related to the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict during the quarter 16 November 2017 to 15 February 2018: #JerusalemIstheCapitalofPalestine went viral after U.S. president Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his intention to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. The arrest of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi for slapping an Israeli soldier also prompted a viral campaign under the hashtag #FreeAhed. A smaller campaign protested the exclusion of Palestinian human rights from the agenda of the annual Creating Change conference organized by the US-based National LGBTQ Task Force in Washington. And, UNRWA publicized its emergency funding appeal, following the decision of the United States to slash funding to the organization, with the hashtag #DignityIsPriceless.


1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Ted Turner

While the US congress was debating whether to continue China's Most Favoured Nation status, and Clinton was going back on his election promises, CNN's boss in Hong Kong was appealing for a laissez-faire approach to human rights


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