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Sacrificing the Women of Afghanistan

“If someone is sentenced to death, they must be killed with a gun, and photographing the execution is forbidden.” So goes one of the directives handed down by Taliban leader Mullah Omar in an effort to...

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A New Stage for an Old Drama

On 31 January 2011, Burma’s parliament will convene in the country’s newly erected capital, Nay Pyi Taw, for the very first time. The opening session will take place 85 days after the nation’s first...

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You Can Run – Or You Can Hide

On 26 January of this year, David Kato Kisule, a prominent gay rights campaigner from the east African nation of Uganda, was beaten to death with a hammer in his house near the country’s capital of...

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Misguided Priorities for Internet Governance

This is a cross-post from the Lowy Institute’s blog, The Interpreter. If you had to choose between human rights and governance, which one would you pick? Most might go for human rights, but when it...

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Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law Shelved – Backgrounder

Promising news from Uganda: the parliament has adjourned without debating a controversial bill that would have mandated life prison for homosexual acts and the death penalty for ‘aggravated’ cases. The...

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Nobel Women’s Initiative 2011

Yesterday, 23 May, the third international gathering of the Nobel Women’s Initiative opened its gates in Quebec, Canada. This year it carries the title Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual...

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Laying the Groundwork: The Definition, Scope and Roles of Human Rights

Last week, we looked at how international and regional-level entities created and designed to deal with 20th century problems are struggling to adapt to a changing global landscape – a landscape that...

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Syria: Appeasement in Disguise?

Kofi Annan was in New York on 16 March to brief the Security Council on the mess that is Syria. But whatever (limited) hopes there might be of his ability to negotiate an end to the violence, the...

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Sri Lanka: Reactions to US Resolution at UNHRC

On 22 March, 2012, 24 countries voted in favour of a US resolution at a UN Human Rights Council meeting on Sri Lanka seeking to encourage the government to implement the recommendations made by the...

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Shocking Satellite Photos Open New Avenues for Conflict Prevention and Response

Within a week after sectarian riots and arson attacks tore through central Myanmar, conflict monitors and human rights advocates could see the damage via satellite images and tally the number of...

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Passport-Shaped Boxes

Humans like to categorize and classify things – it helps make life easier. Well, at least some people’s lives. For others, trying to squeeze themselves into these boxes is nearly impossible. So the...

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Drones for the ICC and Drones for Human Rights?

A recent thought-provoking and provocative op-ed in the New York Times has presented a serious challenge to those who view drones as nothing more than the evil extensions of secretive warfare....

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China’s “Surgical” Human Rights Crackdown

Two weeks ago China and the US conducted their annual human rights dialogue amid what the US reaffirmed afterward has been a renewed crackdown on policy activists under the Xi administration, the...

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Inevitable Transhumanism? How Emerging Strategic Technologies will affect the...

It is ironic and indeed counterintuitive that our own human nature has a huge potential to drive us towards physical and cognitive enhancements that may completely alter the characteristics of our...

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Lampedusa and Marketized Surveillance in the Mediterranean

Following the latest deaths near Lampedusa on 3rd October and then again off the coast of Sicily on 11th October, what are we to make of the current and likely future European responses? There has...

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Diagnostics for Global Health

CORVALLIS, OREGON – In developed countries, most people take for granted that when they are sick, they will have access to timely diagnosis and treatment. Indeed, while the diagnostic process – which...

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Will Iran’s New Support of Human Rights Go Deeper Than Rhetoric?

It is no secret that Iran has an image problem in the international arena. As part of a comprehensive campaign to regain credibility and improve its reputation on the world stage, the country is...

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Burundi: Ignoring the Problem Won’t Make It Go Away

This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 23 April 2014. In what looks like a classic case for the African Union’s (AU’s) early-warning mechanisms, alarm...

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Geopolitics of Dignity

This article was originally published by Global Policy Journal on 20 May 2014. Republished with permission of the author. The pursuit of freedom has long been thought of as the driving force of...

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Europe and China: A New Tack?

At a recent state dinner in London for visiting People’s Republic of China (PRC) Premier Li Keqiang, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made a number of undiplomatic comments, saying that the...

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