Blog Post Mar 25, 2021 Is The End Near For Viktor Orbán? For more than 10 years, Viktor Orbán and his cronies have ruled Hungary.
Blog Post Feb 22, 2021 Dictatorship Sows Division in Nagorno-Karabakh From September to November of 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings.
Blog Post Feb 18, 2021 Protest Runway: The Use of Color & Fashion in Global Pro-Democracy Movements It’s New York Fashion Week — while many people have their eyes on the runway, street protests are giving glamorous fashion shows some serious competition.
Blog Post Feb 3, 2021 After Navalny’s Conviction, It’s Time for the Biden Administration to Act On February 2, following a sham trial in Moscow, Putin critic Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison under the pretense of having violated his parole by seeking emergency treatment in Germany, following an assassination attempt by Russia’s secret police, the FSB.
Blog Post Jan 31, 2021 The Last Internet Shutdowns On January 13, 2021, the regime of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni ordered internet service providers to suspend all but essential government communications, plunging the country into a complete internet blackout the day before the presidential elections.
Blog Post Jan 29, 2021 What’s Happening in Xinjiang? Q&A With Uyghur Activist Jewher Ilham China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as the Uyghur Region or East Turkestan, is home to millions of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities.
Blog Post Jan 14, 2021 Is Saudi Arabia’s Kafala System Truly Reformed? In early November 2020, Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister for human resources announced that Saudi Arabia would be easing “foreign workers’ contractual restrictions”