The McCain Institute invites you to join the event, “Unsilenced: Empowering Human Rights Defenders in Exile” on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the ASU Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center. This event,… Read more »
The Romania/Croatia/Qatari/Iranian coproduction Between Revolutions / Între revoluții (above) by Vlad Petri received the Onion Award for best film in the main competition of the 14th edition of the MakeDox Creative… Read more »
The spread of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information (MDM) online has become one of the most pressing issues of our time, according to analysts Gabrielle Lim and Samantha Bradshaw. Around the… Read more »
Human rights groups have denounced moves by Peru’s Congress to capture the other branches of the state and to reverse social, democratic and civic gains. This takes place in the… Read more »
The Chinese government is the world’s most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, accounting for 253 incidents, or 30 per cent of all recorded cases of direct, physical transnational repression since… Read more »
It’s obvious by now: sanctions on Russia haven’t lived up to expectations, says analyst Ben Judah. Russia has proved much more adept at evading sanctions because it is manipulating… Read more »
The current wave of social unrest in Peru is not an isolated incident. In the past three years, similar demonstrations have taken place in Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador, with locals… Read more »
Opposition parties today walked out of the venue where results from Nigeria’s tightly contested presidential elections are being announced, the BBC reports: The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and… Read more »
When the 50 or so members of the Russian opposition met last November at the Jablonna Palace outside Warsaw, where the Polish opposition once began the so-called roundtable discussions that eventually led… Read more »
Thomas R. Donahue, the second in command to Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 16 years, died on Saturday in Washington, D.C. He was 94. He was suffering from… Read more »