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On February 14, Indonesia’s 204 million eligible voters face a challenge in voting for the candidate with the clearest position on human rights issues.
Opposition activists have previously been accused of treason and unpatriotic behaviour for expressing concerns about human rights abuses.
A fire killed 38 migrants in a Mexico detention facility in March 2023. A sociologist’s conversations with migrants show that they had a common response to this news – a deep sense of grief.
Even incomplete or insincere apologies have restorative value.
While the Jan. 6 committee investigating the US Capitol attacks has limited legal powers, it can help craft an accurate narrative of American democracy and history.
Armed conflicts today involve slavery in many different forms, from forced marriage to child soldiers.
Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are caught in a conflict in a country that was supposed to provide them refuge.
Instead of drawing on the lessons of its own negotiated settlement and its rich history of peace-making in Africa, Pretoria chose to appease Russia.
South Africa frequently invokes its celebrated constitution that is based on human rights, but has often failed to live up to its ideals.
The conflict has put a temporary lid on plans that have been in the making for more than a decade since rich liquefied natural gas reserves were discovered in the Rovuma Basin.
The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly illustrated how little we know about how prisoners are treated behind bars around the world. The Prison Transparency Project aims to change that.
A growing body of research suggests that investors care about human rights and consultation with Indigenous communities, and consider them important to the value of their investments.
Forced labor is a widespread problem in fisheries on the high seas. Between 2012 and 2018, an estimated 100,000 people may have been victims of forced labor on thousands of different boats.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump’s executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
United Nations peacekeeping operations need to be refashioned to meet the needs of an ever evolving world.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
Ousted president Omar al-Bashir could face the International Criminal Court for his role in Sudan’s clampdown on the non-Arab people of Darfur.
The role and efficacy of the traditional crime-prevention measures in Iraye-Oke are widely acknowledged by people who live in the area.
Although financial reparation for African-Americans may be complicated to achieve, steps such as accurate acknowledgement of atrocities as well as public apologies and memorials can be enacted.
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Research Fellow at Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, National University of Singapore
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University
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Professor, American University School of International Service
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Professor of the Practice of Mediation, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop's University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor Political Science, and Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Clinical Professor, School of Law, Boston University
