International Crisis Group 1
Oct 9, 2017
The Rising Risks of Misrule in Tajikistan
I.Overview Tajikistan’s 25 years as an independent state have been marred by poverty, endemic state corruption and the steady narrowing...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
LGBT Refugees Find that Safety in West is Far from Absolute
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
Chechnya’s Long Arm of Retaliation Against Gay Men
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 3, 2017
Azerbaijan: Anti-Gay Crackdown
Isa Shahmarly, former chair of the Free (Azad) LGBT group, whose experience as a gay man in Azerbaijan, drove him to suicide. In...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 2, 2017
The Twists and Turns along China’s Belt and Road
“The project of the century” is how Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi touted the Belt and Road Initiative to the world when addressing the...
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 30, 2017
Tracking Conflict Worldwide - September 2017
Trends and Outlook In Asia, the continuing security crackdown in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State prompted over half a million Rohingya...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 19, 2017
German Election No Time for Complacency on Turkey and Russia
By Hugh Williamson Activist Yulia Galyamina and her husband Nikolai Tuzhilin lie on the ground next to riot police during an...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 15, 2017
Protecting Civilians Critical to Syria Talks’ Success
A Syrian man carries his two girls as he walks across the rubble following a barrel bomb attack on the rebel-held neighborhood of...
The Armenian Weekly
Sep 15, 2017
Bipartisan Legislation Aims to Apply Lessons of the Armenian Genocide in Preventing New Atrocities a
Twenty-seven U.S. Representatives—from more than a dozen states—have recently joined H.Res.220 as cosponsors in a new wave of bipartisan...
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 13, 2017
Ukraine’s New Diplomatic Battlefronts: U.S. Weapons, UN Peacekeepers
By Magdalena Grono Washington is considering providing Kyiv with lethal weapons, worrying many residents of eastern Ukraine – and not...
Reporters without Borders 1
Sep 4, 2017
Azerbaijani government tries to export intimidation to France
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will testify for the defence in the Azerbaijani government’s lawsuit against French broadcast journalists...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Jul 31, 2017
Caught in crossfire, Ukrainians prod their government for compensation
It was a loud day in Krasnohorivka on May 28. The Donetsk Oblast city of 15,000 people, 715 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, was shelled in...
