Call for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression ...

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Starting in the summer of 2024, internet users in Pakistan experienced something mysterious. Messages to friends and family on WhatsApp, the most popular social media platform in the country, often ...

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President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown. Noboa’s emergency declaration in 2024 followed a years-long security breakdown ...

Safeguarding freedom requires active participation and dedicated commitment from every one of us. Freedom House’s co-founder, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, said that “a democratic government ...

This piece was first published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In March, officials at the US State Department revealed that they would use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of “foreign ...

Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law. In January 2025, a Russian court sentenced ...

This article was first published on Just Security. As Sudan marks two years since the eruption of war between rival military factions—the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

Citizens in Serbia are demanding a free and just society, but it remains unclear whether the larger democratic community will lend its support. Last November, 15 people were killed when a canopy ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...

Bernardo Arévalo overcame tremendous obstacles to become Guatemala’s president, but the old guard that tried to derail his campaign is now retaliating against his government to protect their own ...