Rowan Moore, a journalist for The Guardian newspaper in London, used the words “misery machines” in describing giant cruise ships in an opinion piece last Sunday. He writes:
“Giant cruise ships look to me like misery machines. They don’t
Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians, a humanitarian relief program similar to TPS (Temporary Protected Status), will terminate on March 31, 2019 according to a formal memo released by President Donald Trump. Liberian DED was set to expire on March 31,
Yesterday, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding Liberian nationals in the United States. The Memorandum provides for a 12-month wind-down of both Deferred Enforcement Departure and Temporary Protected
On March 27, 2018, President Trump issued a memo directing the Department of Homeland Security to begin a 12-month wind-down period of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians, starting April 1, 2018, and running through March 31, 2019. USCIS will
From Front Page Africa:The most talked about Domestic Violence Bill, which has suffered so many setbacks from the 52nd and 53rd Legislatures, was finally given an Executive Order late Friday evening (January 19) by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.The President’s constitutional mandate, arguably comes to
On December 7, 2017, Covington’s Africa practice welcomed Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for a roundtable discussion on how to expand the training and support of civil service leaders in Africa through Emerging Public Leaders (“EPL”).
President Trump’s executive order last Friday suspended the overseas refugee program for four months. What are the humanitarian impacts of barring admission for refugees who have waited years to come lawfully to the United States? And who are refugees? Helene Cooper writes
US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule amending various provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to account for changes to controls on exports of arms and related materiel to Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia,
Canada
Canada imposed economic sanctions against Liberia to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1521 (2003). The multilateral economic sanctions are imposed pursuant to the United Nations Act and the Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolutions on Liberia. However,
On Sept. 22, 2016, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson extended the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone through May 20, 2017. The TPS designations for these countries were extended for six months to allow
