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The Senate immigration reform bill was voted out of the Judiciary Committee on May 21. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring the bill to the Senate floor in early June.
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Too often our nation's leaders focus on conflicts only after the shooting has started or in ways that don't create paths to peace. One welcome contrast to this trend is case of Kenya--where Friends have been working with local peacebuilders for years.
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Weekly updates on Afghanistan.
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The latest blog post on peaceful prevention of deadly conflict.
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The Obama administration requests a $79.5 billion budget for operations in Afghanistan in Fiscal Year 2014, says Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry claims that President Obama will soon announce the number of troops the United States will keep in Afghanistan after 2014.
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Survey after survey shows that the majority of the U.S. population consistently oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, or think the war is not worth fighting.
Recent Surveys
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FCNL has witnessed the conflict in Syria with grave concern. What began as a powerful nonviolent movement in 2011 has since escalated into a full-blown protracted civil war. We oppose U.S. military intervention, and urge the U.S. government to support a comprehensive diplomatic settlement and generous humanitarian aid.
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Last December, as senator after senator cast their vote on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, advocates were stunned. What had gone wrong?
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At the beginning of 2010, FCNL didn't expect to spend the year working to secure Senate ratification of the New START treaty, which reduces the number of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia and re-establishes a structure for mutual accountability.
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Reaching agreement among many countries on how to address a global problem can take years--but international agreements are critical for making lasting change. Here are the steps a treaty goes through before it can take effect and how the U.S. can influence that process.
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