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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe Afghan woman activist still determined to educate girlsWith the future of women’s rights and girls’ education in doubt under Afghanistan’s new Taliban regime, Zarlasht...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWill Syria’s disappeared ever find justice?The Syrian war might be one of the most documented conflicts in history, but impunity remains the norm for those...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEgyptian researchers must choose between forced exile and arrestThe Sisi regime’s authoritarian clamp-down on Egyptian academic freedom has left researchers with some stark choices
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureTurkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroadEmboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIraq: assassinations, repression, and the struggles of daily lifeYears of of lethal state failure have devastated the people of Iraq, whose daily life today is fraught with...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s presidentAfter more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionCOVID-19 is spreading among Bahrain’s prisoners of conscienceAs the main supporter of Bahrain’s repressive regime, the UK should join the protests against human rights abuses in...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InterviewPrison has not discouraged Cuba’s leading dissidentThe human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer says recent protests have left the regime on the back foot.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgyptian student of gender and religion jailed for terrorism on visit homeCrackdown on freedoms is intensifying with the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy – the latest student to be locked up on...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRoosevelt’s ‘four freedoms’ weren't just an American ideaOn the anniversary of the wartime US President’s era-defining speech, the world must once again be rebuilt – but we...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOne more attack on NGOs in VenezuelaIn execution of his systematic plan of suffocation and harassment, Maduro orders to monitor the bank accounts of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt’s brutal regimeJust weeks after staff from an Egyptian human rights group were arrested on terror charges, Macron rolled out the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat exactly is Erdoganism?The spectacle of Erdoganism is much closer to a tribal state than to a state governed by the rule of law.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSanctions not normalisation are needed to stop Israel’s human rights abusesUntil when will the Israeli government be allowed to continue its transgressions without international accountability?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill Europe stop covering up the crimes of the Egyptian regime?The latest wave of arrests of EIPR human rights activists in Egypt exposes Europe’s complicity with the regime.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran: how to kill a languageZara Mohammadi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for teaching Kurdish. This is part of a state policy against minorities.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIranians say no to executionsWhile many are dying from COVID-19, the Iranian regime is still trying to execute those arrested in the November...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19 in Brazilian prisons: Pandemic or a necropolitical project?The prison crisis can be interpreted as the continuation of Bolsonaro's campaign platform: one rooted in the belief...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEspionage and repression in the Middle East courtesy of the WestWestern companies are providing surveillance tools to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
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