With Kazakhstan, US ignores rights at its peril

Expand U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS/Kevin Lamarqu While disappointing, it was hardly a surprise that the White House talks on Tuesday between U.S. President Donald Trump and his counterpart from Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, barely featured human rights. Trump is better known for hosting and praising authoritarian leaders than pressing them on human rights, and both his foreign policy and domestic agendas are so rife with damaging policies on refugees, women’s health,…

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