Many well-intentioned people still struggle to understand what exactly constitutes antisemitism and when anti-Israel rhetoric ‘crosses the line.’
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Incoming Trump administration is set to adopt a more hawkish stance on Cuba-US relations – but a more targeted sanctions approach may pressure Havana without hurting the island’s impoverished people.
While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
Citizens considered a threat to the government’s survival have become targets for enforced disappearances.
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are politicians listening?
Some African nations are strengthening their democracy, while most are stuck in a dangerously authoritarian spiral.
Lebanon – home to thousands of Syrian refugees – has long suffered at the hands of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.
Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.
Donald Trump’s return has normalised and supercharged authoritarianism internationally, making it the rule rather than the exception.
Trump’s new term holds both promise and fear for Africa.
Canberra has reinstated funding for 42 refugees and asylum seekers in the country, but given their deteriorating physical and mental health, it should be doing much more.
Mauritians were determined to bring change following a wide range of failures by Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth’s government.
Things had been going largely well for Botswana since 1966. But the wheels started coming off when Ian Khama became president in 2008.
There’s been a gradual erosion of democratic rights and liberties in the island of Mauritius.
The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any less critical.
Repressive countries have more success in co-opting support to silence overseas critics with governments they trade with.
Joe Biden’s proposed visit, and his record of engagement with the continent, put him one up on his predecessor, Donald Trump, who didn’t visit Africa.
The threat of legal sanctions or imprisonment for a suicide survivor can have serious negative repercussions.
A year on from the Hamas attacks and Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, new fronts of fighting are creating another generation of displaced people across the region.
The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Sarah Joseph is a Friend of The Conversation.
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