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Life Behind Bars: Latin America Must Address the Over-Incarceration of Women

April 14, 2022 Shivani Shah 0 Comments Central America, Covid19, drugs, Government accountability, Human Rights, ICCPR, Incarceration, Justice System, Latin America, UNCAT, Women

By Stephanie Petingi As women around the world continue to fight for their political, social, and economic rights, the high

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Stop Watching the Olympics and the World Cup!

March 24, 2022March 30, 2022 Shivani Shah 1 Comment Asia, China, Fifa, Human Rights, IOC, Middle East, Olympics, public diplomacy, Qatar, Sanctions, Sportswashing, USA, World Cup

By: Christopher Foran Long before the opening ceremonies of the recently closed 2022 Olympic games in China, concerns were raised regarding

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Victims of Expansionist States: The Case of Western Sahara

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Shivani Shah 0 Comments Biden administration, Conflict, expansionist states, France, independence, Morocco, occupation, sovereignty, United Nations, USA, Western Sahara

By Chimdi Chukwukere The situation in Western Sahara has ‘significantly deteriorated,’ according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ latest report to

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A Gordian Knot: The North Macedonia Kleptocracy and What Can Take Us to The Future?

March 2, 2022 Shivani Shah 0 Comments Albanians, Balkans, Conflict, Corruption, ethnic conflict, Human Rights, kleptocracy, Kumanovë incident, Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, Slavs

By Drilon Veliu The Republic of North Macedonia is a new nation-building process that must be met with substantial changes

Cybersecurity Editors' Pick Featured Human Rights Opinion

Storytime: Social Media Leads to Violence

March 1, 2022March 23, 2022 Shivani Shah 1 Comment cybersecurity, Facebook, India, misinformation, Myanmar, social media, Violence

By Sohaa Khan Media consumption has been influential for as long as its conception and is often the root of

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Truth Commissions: Doomed without Substantial Changes and Implementation

February 8, 2022February 9, 2022 Sohaa Khan 0 Comments haiti, Human Rights, Kenya, truth commissions

By Shivani Shah Truth commissions are ambitious and idealistic. Simply put, they are not as effective as intended. In fact,

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Kiribati: The First Country the Ocean Will Claim

June 15, 2021 Rebecca Blaser 1 Comment Climate Change, climate refugees, Displacement, Human Rights, Kiribati

By Amanda Barba The global displacement crisis has reached the most critical level since World War II. The refugee system

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Global Islamophobia: China, India, and Beyond

May 7, 2021May 8, 2021 Nicole Kalczynski 0 Comments China, Crimes Against Humanity, ethnic cleansing, genocide, India, international crime, Islamophobia, Uighurs

By Mohamed Elshekh State-sponsored persecution and unlawful vigilantism characterize the sociopolitical conditions of many Muslim minority communities. The French Senate’s

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Targeted Disinformation Campaigns

May 7, 2021May 8, 2021 Nicole Kalczynski 0 Comments cybersecurity, Digital Policy, disinformation, Fake News, information warfare, international relations, Israel, misinformation, Palestine, targeted campaigns

Photo credit: Kayla Velasque By: Sara Fakik Editors: Nicole Kalczynski & Becca Blaser Disinformation is defined as deliberately misleading information or

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Religious Persecution at Home and Abroad: The Case of India

April 30, 2021May 1, 2021 Nicole Kalczynski 0 Comments Farmer's Protests, Hindu, India, Nationalism, Punjabi, Religious freedom, Religious Minority, Sikh, United Nations

By: Sohaa Khan Religious freedom is a basic and fundamental human right in many parts of the world; however, there

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