Tomasz P. Malinowski: “Further progress on human rights is integral to our bilateral relationship and is necessary for a further deepening of…”

we are also seeing, in some ways, a very similar increasingly assertive set of measures to restrict civil society and to challenge the legitimacy of global norms.

The alternative would be far less cooperation in shaping the rules of trade, including rules that protect labor rights and the environment.

Preventing U.S. assistance from being used in support of human rights violations is a policy priority.

For the first time in the Asia-Pacific, if TPP happens, we will have a group of nations that have consented to join their economic destinies together under commonly agreed, enforceable rules with America at its center.