Since the election of a reformist, social democratic government, Macedonians are seeing surprising shoots of hope in their country.
In Tajikistan, academic freedom is severly under threat. But how should the international academic community respond?
The ICC will eventually be competent on the crime of aggression, prosecuting not only war crimes, but also the crime of war (for which heads of states bear primary responsibility).
Mexico is a volcano, and the beauty and frailty of the snow gracing its peaks hides a scalding reality. An instability that in any given moment could explode. Español
It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political purposes. عربي
Open letter from Uzbek human rights activists to British sculptor Paul Day, commissioned to commemorate former President. The sculpture is to go outside the Uzbek embassy in Moscow.
The commonly held view that the conflicts in Yemen – and elsewhere in the region – are a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia must be revised.
With flat-rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, some call Nagorno-Karabakh a “Caucasian Tiger”. Meanwhile, money from abroad funds a generous but militaristic social welfare system — maintaining border villages and swelling the army’s ranks.
Once the pride of the Soviet Union, Tolyatti’s car factories are cutting workers and raising production quotas by the year. The cost is all too human.
The Council of Europe's crucial activities come with a deep responsibility to ensure public access to its historic decision-making. Unfortunately, this has been sadly lacking for a number of years.
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are facing growing threats.
