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(Myanmar) Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent (Frontier Myanmar)

Celebrities and influencers who were slow to respond to the February 1 coup on social media – and to condemn it – have drawn...

(Mexico) Mexico: Include Protections for Women With Disabilities (HRW)

Mexico’s senate should ensure protection for women with disabilities who are victims of violence, a coalition of human rights groups said today. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/15/mexico-include-protections-women-disabilities

(Saudi Arabia) Saudi Arabia: Further Textbook Reforms Needed (HRW)

Saudi Arabia has taken important steps to purge its school religion textbooks of hateful and intolerant language, but the current texts maintain language that...

(Algeria) The Right That Vanished from Algeria’s Constitution (HRW)

Eric Goldstein It is sadly commonplace that many countries that respect human rights the least have constitutions that respect human rights the most. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/15/right-vanished-algerias-constitution

(USA/Pentagon/Anti Extremism Campaign) Keep The Pentagon’s “Anti-Extremism” Campaign Short And Discriminate (1945)

By James Holmes That’s the advice Renaissance Florentine statesman-philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli would tender as the Pentagon sets out to purge “extremism”—shorthand for members of violent subversive groups—from...

(India/UK) The UK Shifts to the Indo-Pacific: An Opportunity for India-UK Ties (ORF)

HARSH V. PANT TOM MILFORD When the United Kingdom (UK) releases the highly anticipated integrated review of its foreign, defence, security and development policy in March,...

(USA/India) US-India ties under Biden: Recognising New Delhi’s predispositions (ORF)

KASHISH PARPIANI SUKANYA SEN During his confirmation hearing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deemed India to have been “a bipartisan success story of our successive...

(USA/Pandemic/Cybersecurity) How the Covid19 emergency response could strengthen US Cybersecurity (ORF)

ANDREAS KUEHN BRUCE W. MCCONNELL The Biden-Harris Administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the legislative emergency package designed to combat COVID-19 through vaccinations, economic relief, and...

(China/Media Censorship) Understanding Chinese media censorship: From Ming to Jinping (ORF)

VATSALA MISHRA ARUN TEJA POLCUMPALLY ““Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” “…The real power. The...

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