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Cambodia – Free Environmental Activists (HRW)

The Cambodian government should immediately drop baseless conspiracy and “insulting the king” charges against four environmental activists affiliated with the Mother Nature Cambodia environmental group and...

Kazakhstan – ILO Slams Kazakhstan for Long-Standing Labor Rights Abuses (Mihra Rittmann, HRW)

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has slammed Kazakhstan again for harassing union leaders. At the ILO’s annual conference earlier this month, Kazakhstan drew the ire of the Committee...

Guatemala – 3 Killings of LGBT People in a Week (HRW)

Unidentified assailants killed two transgender women and one gay man in Guatemala in separate attacks within the span of one week, including Andrea González, the leader...

Europe – Next Week is Time for EU to Finally Lead on Rule of Law (Philippe Dam, HRW)

The Tuesday (22 June) European Council meeting on Hungary and Poland is a chance for the EU to show that it is finally taking...

Europe/Turkey – EU Should Make Human Rights Core in Agenda with Turkey (Philippe Dam, HRW)

European Union officials have a chance to send a clear message when they meet for an EU summit this week: the deplorable human rights situation...

Iran – A familiar victory: Iran’s divides under a new president (Ali Reza Eshraghi, ECFR)

Iran’s presidential election delivered its long-anticipated result. Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner who currently serves as the country’s chief justice, was declared the winner at...

Europe/Turkey/European Green Deal – New energies: How the European Green Deal can save the EU’s relationship with Turkey (Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Susi Dennison, ECFR)

Summary Europeans know that the EU needs to create a new paradigm in its relationship with Turkey after a challenging few years. The bloc...

South Asia – How air pollution is accelerating Himalayan glaciers melt (Muthukumara Mani, World Bank blogs)

Local women is standing in the mountains holding a shovel in Muktinath, Nepal. Photo: Shutterstock/Oleskaus Kumik village sits in the picturesque Zanskar valley high in...

Financial Repression – The costs and benefits of making pension funds a target for financial repression (Fiona Stewart, Mark Davis, Peter Knaack, World Bank...

Photo by Dan Freeman on Unsplash Financial repression is not new topic, but the striking amount of new debt taken on by governments to support...

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