Human Rights

Ending Violence in Schools

2021-08-09

Violence in schools profoundly affect children, often for the rest of their live. The statistics are staggering. One in three students in secondary schools is affected by physical violence, and one in four by bullying...

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Doing Democracy During the Pandemic

2021-01-06

Social distancing laws, curfews, and track-and-trace technologies employed in the context of the COVID-19 crisis have been used to harass, detain, or sanction human-rights ...

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Trump's Strategy on Use of Federal Law Enforcement

2020-08-03

When the American colonies won their independence from England, England recognized each of the 13 colonies as an independent, sovereign nation.

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On the Murder of Husham al-Hashemi

2020-07-12

Husham left behind a wife and four young children, along with many friends across the political spectrum and across the world. I had known him for about six years. Husham was a bit of an enigma at first: an Iraqi security analyst with contacts...

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The Main Street Manifesto

2020-06-28

The historic protests sweeping America were long overdue, not just as a response to racism and police violence, but also as a revolt against entrenched plutocracy.

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Why the prosecution of a Minneapolis police officer is such a rarity

2020-05-30

The doctrine of qualified immunity too often gives police miscreants a free pass

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Unemployment during coronavirus: The psychology of job loss

2020-04-05

Millions of people around the world have lost their jobs amid the current Covid-19 crisis. How should you handle your emotional reaction?

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Remembering the Forgotten Gandhi

2020-03-14

The Dandi March, which started 90 years ago, inaugurated Mahatma Gandhis most successful attempt at civil disobedience against the British Raj.

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A Stress Test for Public Health Systems

2020-03-11

Now that the coronavirus has gone global, markets are swooning and the weaknesses of national health systems are being revealed. Like the slower-moving crisis of antimicrobial resistance, the pandemic should alert governments to the need for significantly

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A Vehicle for Revolution

2020-03-10

Baghdads motorized rickshaws are a symbol of the larger crisis Iraq faces as it fails to give its youths a viable future.

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The Shia vs. the ‘Shia Crescent’

2020-03-10

Whether by force or politics, Iran desperately needs to reconsolidate power among Shia constituencies throughout the region, but this challenge may prove insurmountable given current public sentiment in Iraq and Lebanon.

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Iraq Cries Out for Unity

2019-12-27

Although the ongoing Shia-led protests in Iraq have not spread to regions with a Sunni majority (including Kurdish areas), many members of these communities have supported the protest clamor...

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Distrust fuels protests in the Middle East and North Africa

2019-12-27

Street protests are enveloping the developing world and especially the Middle East and North Africa Algeria...

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Why End the Global Media Crisis?

2019-11-28

Despite its scope and complexity, the crisis in the news media is far from intractable. Addressing it will require the worlds wealthy democracies to use foreign

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The Arab Winter of Discontent

2019-11-07

Following mass uprisings in Algeria and Sudan this summer, protesters have now taken to the streets in Lebanon and Iraq to demand better economic conditions and an end to mis-governance.

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The fight to keep the internet free and open for everyone

2019-11-04

Connecting the world is seen as a humanitarian mission for some technology evangelists – but ensuring a free and open web is a harder problem to solve.

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For Uighur Muslims in China, Life Keeps Getting Harder

2019-10-28

Concentration camps, surveillance, and spies keep the community under tight control.

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Why Rich Cities Rebel

2019-10-24

Having lost touch with public sentiment, officials in Paris, Hong Kong, and Santiago failed to anticipate that a seemingly modest policy action (a fuel-tax increase, an extradition bill, and higher metro prices, respectively) would trigger a massive socia

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Economy, WhatsApp, wildfires: Why are there protests in Lebanon?

2019-10-19

The crisis in Lebanon has been simmering for months

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Calling a Halt to Turkeys Offensive in North-eastern Syria

2019-10-14

Turkeys incursion into north-eastern Syria threatens to reduce a region of relative calm to hotly contested terrain: it could meet determined resistance, cause mass displacement and revive ISIS. Washington should urgently press Ankara to stop the offensiv

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No Country for Poor Men: How Lebanon’s Debt Has Exacerbated Inequality

2019-10-13

After Lebanons civil war ended in 1990, it began rapidly expanding the public debt. This debt has exacerbated widening socioeconomic inequalities, now threatening the countrys stability.

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Iraq Is Currently Being Shaken by Violent Protests

2019-10-08

Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa

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Iraqi journalists blacklist politicians who attack them

2019-09-23

Some Iraq journalists are forming a list that includes all officials who attack them to prepare the ground for legal action against them.

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Your Poison, My Profit

2019-09-02

In an interview, Makram Ouaiss says Lebanese politicians may provoke a new trash crisis to reach their favored waste solutions.

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