US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs
Foreign Policy,State Department,Democracy,Human Rights,Labor
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The US state department has been advised to terminate grants to nearly all remaining programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which would effectively end the department’s role in funding pro-democracy programming in some of the world’s most hostile totalitarian nations.
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