When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.
- Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University
Coercion and repression are increasingly travelling across borders, thanks to 21st-century communications.
Universities are increasingly under threat everywhere.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES (UPDATED) Hungary has passed a law monitoring the finances of foreign-funded NGOs, another blow to civil society in Viktor Orban’s increasingly “illiberal democracy”.
A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
On November 12 and 13, the US will appear before the United Nations Anti-Torture Committee in Geneva as part of its periodic look at how various countries comply with the rules on torture and other cruel…
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