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Inflation politics is clearer than inflation economics (William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

Ever since inflation reared its ugly head, economists have been arguing about whether it is a transitory problem or a structural problem, with some...

Success despite the odds: South Sudan and Bangladesh (Shanta Devarajan, Brookings)

We enter 2022 with trepidation. The COVID-19 pandemic is having another surge, thanks to the omicron variant, setting record-high infection rates. Civil wars and...

Discrimination holds back religious minority children (Andreas Harsono, Human Rights Watch)

In December 2021, I had the chance to talk with a bright 14-year-old girl named Maria Tunbonat, a fifth-grader in a state school in Tarakan,...

How Democracy Can Defeat Autocracy (Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch)

The conventional wisdom these days is that autocracy is ascendant and democracy is on the decline. But the superficial appeal of the rise-of-autocracy thesis...

German Court Orders Protection of People with Disabilities in Triage Decisions (Jonas Bull, Human Rights Watch)

In a December 2021 ruling, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ordered lawmakers to protect people with disabilities against discrimination during medical triage decisions. Nine people with disabilities...

Kazakhstan: Protect Human Rights During Crisis (Human Rights Watch)

Kazakhstan authorities have failed to prioritize protecting human rights during the country’s current crisis, and should urgently cancel any order to shoot to kill...

Russia: Repression Escalates (Human Rights Watch)

Russian authorities unleashed a full-fledged witch hunt on civic groups, independent media and journalists, political opposition and other critics in the run-up to the parliamentary...

Belarus: Civil Society ‘Purge’ (Human Rights Watch)

Belarusian authorities unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society following peaceful countrywide protests in spring and summer 2020, Human Rights Watch said today in its World...

Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms (Human Rights Watch)

Latin America is facing some of its gravest human rights challenges in decades, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2022. “Latin America...

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