Social media users in Iraq have posted photo of what they claimed to be an “Educational disaster” of school students...
detailsSocial 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 ...
detailsHusham 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...
detailsThe Dandi March, which started 90 years ago, inaugurated Mahatma Gandhis most successful attempt at civil disobedience against the British Raj.
detailsAlthough 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...
detailsDespite 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
detailsConcentration camps, surveillance, and spies keep the community under tight control.
detailsTurkeys 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
detailsSpot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa
detailsRights group and activists claim that more than 60 people had been arrested by Egyptian security forces
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsSaudi attitudes towards the plight of thousands of illegal Rohingya in the kingdom fleeing persecution in Myanmar and squalid Bangladeshi refugee camps help explain Saudi support
detailsA poll for Hope Not Hate has alarming revelations about the 160,000 Conservative members who will choose our next Prime Minister
detailsThis Human Rights Day (December 10) marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations General Assemblys adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
detailsNow that the operation has begun, bipartisan congressional threats to sever U.S. military assistance because of humanitarian concerns will be tested.
detailsThe lethal injection brought an end to the macabre executions of the past. But after a string of botched deaths, its humanity is being brought into question. Is there another option?
detailsIsrael and Myanmar are the two countries with troubled human rights records and disputed histories of dealing with ethnic and national rights
detailsArresting feminists does not inspire faith in the crown princes much hyped reform agenda.
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detailsWith 673 incidents of anti-Shiism during the month of April, Shia repression is on the rise. The reduction in February and March from January’s equivalent 673 incidents was too good to be true, as this month concluded with 128 deaths, 180 injuries, 236 ar
detailsIn an era of rapid technological change, it is widely assumed that disruptions to labor markets are inevitable
detailsThe current president has presided over a purge of liberal expression. And he is nearly guaranteed to win another term this week.
detailsIn a democracy, the rights of the many cannot come at the expense of the rights of the few
detailsFrom the Rohingya to South Sudan, hurricanes to famine, 2017 was full of disasters and crises. But 2018 is shaping up to be even worse. Here is why.
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