Brett Schaefer

Having President Trump preside over the high-level event alerts every nation that U.N. reform is a top U.S. priority, inaction on reform could result in funding reductions or withholding to leverage reform or support for American priorities.

It’s a good starting point for discussions, but the impact will be measured by the concrete details agreed to at the high-level event and adopted during the UNGA( U.N. General Assembly).

What this reveals is donor exhaustion, part of the issue is that in the past, these crises were of short duration. Now we have semi-permanentrefugee camps. This is the world we are in: We have allowed so many situations to fester.

Part of it is that appeals are couched as if every emergency is temporary, but these are increasingly not short-term crises.

This has left Haitians with no recourse but to go to court. by Brett Schaefer

This has left Haitians with no recourse but to go to court.

Nothing says ‘human rights’ more than bureaucrats sitting in a ne... by Brett Schaefer

Nothing says ‘human rights’ more than bureaucrats sitting in a new office.

What needs to happen is the State Department needs to be far more aggressive and assertive in these instances. They either need to take the person back or waive diplomatic immunity, our State Department has a history of being very accommodating; that is, unfortunately, a historical reality.

There is no doubt there are instances of diplomats behaving badly and the more repressive and dictatorial the government is, the more they feel like they can get away with that type of reprehensible behavior.