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As a tool for human rights advocacy, "conditioning" U.S. aid to abusive governments in the Middle East and North Africa on human rights reforms has limits and even possible harms, since it can make the United States complicit in abuses. To foster more debate on this issue, DAWN has released a list of recommendations to the foreign policy community regarding conditionality—tied to a recent workshop that DAWN cohosted with the MIT Center for International Studies—and published its own position paper.
In a series of articles adapted from papers presented at that workshop and published in DAWN's journal, Democracy in Exile, regional experts offer their own views on conditionality and how the U.S. can better promote human rights in the region.
After all these years, the reasons for the massive U.S. aid program to Egypt should be looked over and reconsidered,...
Any conditionality attached to U.S. military aid serves as a kind of smoke and mirrors strategy to obscure the degree...
For as long as there has been a human rights agenda, Americans have argued about how to structure aid programs...
The United States has rarely if ever been singularly guided by human rights concerns in the pursuit of its objectives...
Human rights organizations, advocacy groups and think tanks should review impact of calls for aid conditionality, lawfulness of U.S. military...
In practice, it is very rare that the U.S. government implements any human rights conditions to block U.S. support to...
The following report is a summary of the proceedings from a workshop on "conditionality" cohosted by Democracy for the Arab...
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