Latest Promises In Human Rights

Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Increase refugee admissions
Joe Biden keeps promise to raise refugee admissions to 125,000 | July 6, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Reverse family separation policies
Biden fulfills promise to end Trump policy that led to family separations | January 27, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Immediately rescind the “Muslim bans”
Joe Biden signs proclamation revoking Trump’s travel ban | January 21, 2021
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
41 prisoners remain at Gitmo as Obama leaves office | January 20, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Create loan sanctions to stop private creditors from lending to repressive regimes
White House has yet to implement new type of loan sanction | January 16, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Work for the release of international dissidents
U.S. has helped many dissidents, though not all, go free | December 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
38 Republicans vote against ratification, but treaty could get another vote next year | December 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the use of extreme rendition
Extraordinary rendition officially ruled out, but secrecy makes its elimination hard to prove | December 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Provide $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS
Spending is less than promised, but more people receive medical treatment and care | July 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
Goals, timetables on the way | June 20, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Open new consulates “in the tough and hopeless corners of the world”
None shuttered and two opened where life is hard | March 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the use of torture
Wide agreement that Obama’s torture ban has held | November 14, 2011