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Nigeria’s reliance on soldiers for civilian enforcement comes with serious costs, including human rights abuses, corruption and a rise in violent crimes.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
The future of Mozambique rests on the ability of the new president.
The UN’s Pact for the Future is a sweeping document aimed at guiding international action to resolve current crises and shift its focus to the future.
The numbers of refugees and asylum seekers are rising at a time when there is growing anti-immigrant sentiment.
Only Paul Kagame will decide when he exits Rwanda’s political stage.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Argentina to commemorate victims of the country’s military dictatorship amid renewed concerns for human rights.
It is feared that the current violence against political opposition in Chad could signal the beginning of another long term dictatorship.
Russia is not interested in helping Africa to prosper or achieve stability, but as a theatre for advancing the Kremlin’s geostrategic interests.
A new EU law would require thousands of multinational companies, including many based in the US, to look for signs of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
With Africa’s solid support and his pro-west military and policy adventures, Kagame is able to take on critics.
Migrants and refugee claimants in immigration detention continue to face serious trauma and abuse. The federal government must take action to stop migrant detentions.
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’ rights, and it isn’t the only issue to define Qatar.
Maxime Mokom is an ordinary man who came to reflect a specific vision of the Central African society, one that exclude other fellow citizens in the name of being a ‘true central African’.
International support for Déby and the dependence on Chad’s peacekeeping troops had a downside: it came at the expense of democracy and respect for human rights.
All of the 39 countries human rights experts tracked in 2020 experienced a decline in human rights. It’s not yet clear whether countries will quickly bounce back as the pandemic eases.
President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
A strong turnout by Chinese teams during the 2022 Winter Olympics could help build national pride in China — and, in turn, help Xi Jinping’s bid for a third term this year.
The International Olympic Committee’s position is clear. Human rights be damned. Refugees be damned. The Games must go on. The rest is window dressing.
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Sarah Joseph is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Fellow, Saint Mary’s University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, and acting SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Researcher and founder member of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Programme manager of the Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, School of governance, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Sessional Instructor, Department of Literature and Language, Concordia University of Edmonton