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Rallies hold great significance in Tanzania and are central to everyday political communication.
The youth-led struggle for democracy in Uganda reflects a broader continental reality: young Africans want better leadership.
Museveni’s iron grip on the Ugandan military makes it difficult to imagine a peaceful transfer of power.
From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
The 2025 election will primarily serve to legitimise President Samia Suluhu’s new mandate.
The McCarthy era in the 1950s was another politically contentious time that raised questions about how politics influences what gets taught in the classroom.
Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest marks a turning point in Turkey’s democratic decline.
The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists speaking out against repression in Iran.
The Russian government, under President Vladimir Putin, has stepped up repression at home and aggression abroad in an effort to consolidate power within the country and on the world stage.
The Indonesian government is criticised for using the pandemic as an excuse to repress.
There’s not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is ill and imprisoned.
And there’s not too much the rest of the world can do to stop them.
Nine months into the pandemic, Indonesia has seen serious threats to civil liberties, involving not only privacy but also freedom of expression and of the press in the digital realm.
Academic freedom is under assault around the world. Academics and students are being killed, injured, detained and disappeared in a pattern of disturbing increases in state repression.
Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian’s latest methods to grab and hold power.
A decade on, the power of remembrance is key to Tamil culture.
Almost one-third of countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. Their bad behavior poses a threat to real democracies, as the United States recently learned.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s grip on power remains strong but pockets of dissent are emerging from digital platforms.
New! Mega sports events wash your government’s tarnished reputation whiter-than-white.
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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