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Published in: 50.50Human rights, fundamentalism, power and prejudiceInternational human rights law is not a sufficient basis for responding to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalisms...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (1)Irina Teplinskaya was born with every advantage. But when she started taking drugs, there was no effective help to...
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Published in: oDRFreedom of expression in Ukraine: a disappearing commodity?
Subsidised articles and broadcasts spin the official line and the erosion of media freedom is gathering speed in...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (2)In Russia drug addicts are seen as scum: the sooner they die, the better. In this second part of her story Irina...
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Published in: HomeRepression’s paradox in China
From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them...
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Published in: HomeThe Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century WisconsinIn the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...
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Published in: HomeUpsurge in repression challenges nonviolent resistance in Western SaharaSahrawis have engaged in protests, strikes, cultural celebrations, and other forms of civil resistance focused on...
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Published in: HomePeople power and the new global fermentPeople power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approachDmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
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Published in: oDRSticks and stones: the blogs of Oleg KashinOleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...
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Published in: oDROleg Kashin: words that crippleLast week in Moscow the journalist Oleg Kashin was thrashed to within an inch of his life. President Medvedev has...
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Published in: HomeWhy Geert Wilders is not Liu XiaoboCas Mudde was quite right to point out recently how liberal arguments are being used in the interests of illiberal...
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Published in: oDRA national museum to the victims of Stalinist repression: words not deeds?President Medvedev may have declared his support for a museum complex outside St Petersburg in memory of Soviet...
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Published in: oDRTowards the Rehabilitation of Law: interview with Bill BowringBill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia....
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a test for the presidentThe sacking of Moscow mayor Luzhkov and the continuing debacle of Khodorkovsky's second trial could be seen as tests...
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Published in: oDRDaring to speak out in BelarusA chilling account of brave journalists in Lukashenka’s Belarus, so many of whom die in unexplained circumstances....
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s constitutional debate: finding the way forwardA vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account...
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Published in: oDRSochi: a city with no mosqueIn 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The...
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Published in: HomeConflict in Tajikistan – not really about radical IslamFor almost a month, an armed conflict has been raging in the mountains of the Kamarob gorge between the forces of...
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