Human Rights

Calling a Halt to Turkeys Offensive in North-eastern Syria

2019-10-14

Turkeys 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

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No Country for Poor Men: How Lebanon’s Debt Has Exacerbated Inequality

2019-10-13

After Lebanons civil war ended in 1990, it began rapidly expanding the public debt. This debt has exacerbated widening socioeconomic inequalities, now threatening the countrys stability.

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Iraq Is Currently Being Shaken by Violent Protests

2019-10-08

Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa

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Iraqi journalists blacklist politicians who attack them

2019-09-23

Some Iraq journalists are forming a list that includes all officials who attack them to prepare the ground for legal action against them.

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Your Poison, My Profit

2019-09-02

In an interview, Makram Ouaiss says Lebanese politicians may provoke a new trash crisis to reach their favored waste solutions.

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Recent Official Figures Suggest That 32 Percent of Egyptians Live in Poverty. What Are the Likely Impacts of This?

2019-08-25

A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.

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The Rule of Law Needs a Soul

2019-06-12

The hubris of much liberal legal thinking has been to assume that once a rule-of-law regime is in place, it will be almost perpetually self-sustaining.

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The Christchurch Massacre Was Another Internet-Enabled Atrocity

2019-03-23

Facebook is no more obliged to accept a posting than the New York Times is to print a submitted article. The social media companies themselves bear the social responsibility for their content.

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Quarter-Million Lives at Risk in Latest Battle for Yemen

2018-06-19

Now that the operation has begun, bipartisan congressional threats to sever U.S. military assistance because of humanitarian concerns will be tested.

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Politicizing Education: Israel and Myanmar set worrisome precedent

2018-06-04

Israel and Myanmar are the two countries with troubled human rights records and disputed histories of dealing with ethnic and national rights

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Saudi Arabia Hits the Brakes on Reforms

2018-05-28

Arresting feminists does not inspire faith in the crown princes much hyped reform agenda.

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Incidents of Anti-Shiism in April, 2018

2018-05-05

With 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

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How Press Freedom Is Won

2018-05-04

On World Press Freedom Day, attention will naturally turn to the myriad ways that journalism, a key component of any well-functioning democracy, is under attack.

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Automation and American Leadership

2018-04-21

In an era of rapid technological change, it is widely assumed that disruptions to labor markets are inevitable

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Four More Years of Censoring Culture in Egypt

2018-03-30

The current president has presided over a purge of liberal expression. And he is nearly guaranteed to win another term this week.

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Free Speech in the Filter Age

2018-02-17

In a democracy, the rights of the many cannot come at the expense of the rights of the few

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10 Humanitarian Crises To Look Out For In 2018

2018-01-07

From 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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Germany Is Preparing to Send Refugees Back to Syria

2017-12-06

Syria’s war is not over, but a growing number of German policymakers are trying to revoke asylum and send Syrians back home

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Yemen: The war the world ignores

2017-12-03

A pointless conflict has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world

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Activists and Gulf crisis turn Qatar into potential model of social change

2017-10-27

Qatar became the first autocratic Gulf state to engage with its critics rather than refusing to talk to them and barring them entry to the country

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Christians and Yazidis see a bleak future in a proposed independent Kurdish state

2017-10-12

Bashiqa has become the focus of a tug of war between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish region

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