Shackelford: East African governments turn up repression as the United States turns away

Jun 13, 2025

Elizabeth Shackelford, our senior policy director, explores the U.S. government’s ability to use its influence to prevent human rights abuses in her latest column for the Chicago Tribune. “Not only has it gutted foreign assistance, which could previously be used as an incentive for better behavior, but it also has explicitly stepped back from promoting human rights at all,” Shackelford argues.

Read it here.