List of Human Rights articles
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Protesters gather in Poland demanding Belarus free opposition activist Roman Protasevich. Belarus ‘Hijacking’ Opens New Playbook for Autocrats
Snatching a dissident off a European Union-flagged carrier headed to another EU country opens a dangerous door.
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Nikolai Grunin, an employee at the Russian technology company NtechLab, which won the city of Moscow's tender to supply its facial recognition algorithm, demonstrates the technology during an interview with AFP on Feb. 5, 2020. Russia’s Surveillance State Struggles to Wean Itself Off the West
Moscow’s facial recognition networks are quietly reliant on U.S. components—a headache for companies and policymakers alike.
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Ethiopian refugees from the Tigray conflict gather at a camp in Sudan. Biden Administration Plans Visa Restrictions on Ethiopian Officials Over Tigray
Imposing visa restrictions on officials signals the start of a major U.S. policy shift.
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Chadian soldiers carry the coffin of late Chadian President Idriss Déby during his funeral. Biden Defaults to ‘War on Terror Approach’ to Chad
The U.S. president outlined big promises on human rights reforms. Critics say he’s already breaking them in Africa.
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green line west bank Green-Lined Vision Is Blurring Reality in Israel-Palestine
Policymakers can no longer rely on an imaginary border that supposedly divides two states as a one-state reality takes shape on the ground.
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Demonstrators protest sexual assaults on women in Kolkata, India. Report Back Better
The State Department’s yearly human rights report may be the United States’ best tool for fighting sexual violence. Biden needs to get it right.
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A protester carries a sign in the West Bank. Israel’s Apartheid Doesn’t Make a Difference
A new report about the Israel-Palestine conflict is morally damning—and politically irrelevant.
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A woman wearing a burqa walks past the site of a shooting in Kabul. Afghan Women’s Problems Don’t End With the Taliban
A new U.S. intelligence assessment suggests women’s rights in Afghanistan face threats even without a Taliban takeover.
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biden-foreign-policy-report-card-100-days-nicolas-ortega-illustration The Biden 100-Day Progress Report
We asked 25 experts to grade the administration’s start on foreign policy
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Margaret Thatcher Kurds Iraq Britain’s Post-Brexit Foreign Policy Can Be a Force for Good
Boris Johnson shouldn’t shy away from global leadership and the morally driven approach that protected Kosovars and Iraqi Kurds in the 1990s.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (right) sits next to a monitor displaying a virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden (top left), Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison (bottom left), and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (bottom right), in Tokyo on March 12. Japan Toughens on China as Beijing Issues Threats
Pro-engagement politicians are aging out of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Christine Schraner Burgener arrives at Sittwe Airport in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The End of Quiet Diplomacy in Myanmar
The U.N. dials up the pressure campaign against Myanmar’s putschists.
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People from Myanmar living in Taiwan display portraits of deposed Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi at a protest in Taipei on March 21. Romanticizing Dissidents Plays Into the Hands of Repressive Governments
When it comes to Alexei Navalny and Aung San Suu Kyi, we can’t have it both ways.
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The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, are seen at the passport control point at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Jan. 17. Russian police detained Navalny at the airport shortly after he landed on a flight from Berlin. Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Announces Hunger Strike
The Kremlin foe’s health has deteriorated dramatically since being transferred to a brutal penal colony.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addresses the nation along with army commander Shavendra Silva, navy chief Nishantha Ulugetenne, and air force chief Sudarshana Pathirana during Independence Day celebrations in Colombo on Feb. 4. The United Nations Turns Up the Heat on Rajapaksa
As Sri Lanka’s human rights record worsens, the world body tries to hold the country accountable for past crimes.
