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Pakistan. Pakistan May Have its First Woman Supreme Court Justice (Saroop Ijaz, HRW)

Justice Ayesha Malik. Source: Lahore High Court This week the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, the highest body recommending judicial appointments, will consider the nomination of Justice Ayesha...

Mozambique. Aid-for-Sex Alleged in Northern Mozambique (Zenaida Machado, HRW)

A woman walks through the Internally Displaced Person camp "25 de junho," in Metuge, Mozambique on May 20, 2021.  © 2021 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images Allegations of sexual...

Crimea. The Revolving Door of Persecution in Crimea (Yulia Gorbunova, HRW)

Nariman Dzhelyal in Crimea in 2019.  © 2019 Anton Naumliuk, Grati In today’s Crimea, to be a member of the Crimean Tatar community is to be...

Afghanistan. The future of Afghanistan’s schools – and its children – is at stake (Zama Neff, HRW)

Books, notebooks, and other school supplies are left behind after May 8's deadly bombings near a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 9, 2021. ©...

Burkina Faso. Some Accountability for Attack on Burkina Faso School (Lauren Seibert, HRW)

A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January...

Russia. Putin’s Anti-Navalny Law (Dr. Jiri and Leni Valenta, BESA Center)

Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny, image via Wikimedia Commons On June 4, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “individuals designated as ‘extremists’ from running for public...

Iran/Afghanistan. Iran and the Taliban (Erfan Fard, BESA Center)

Iranian clergymen, including Ebrahim Raisi, image via Wikimedia Commons The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks....

Russia/USA. Interpreting the Biden Doctrine: The View From Moscow (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The newly unveiled Biden doctrine, which renounces the United States’ post-9/11 policies of remaking other societies and building nations abroad, is a foreign policy...

Afghanistan. Afghanistan in the Grip of Sanctions (Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Discussion Club)

The Taliban leaders will try to change the image of the organisation, to convince the international community that it is striving to break with...

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