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Foreign agent laws claimed as a tool to fight back against foreign interference can also be used to silence critics and repress law-abiding NGOs, independent media and individuals.
Discrimination against anyone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is not an African value.
A scholar who visited Syria after the earthquake observes that as the war has dragged on, a humanitarian organization she’s researched for 10 years has branched out.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
The spy watchdog needs to make its findings on complaints against the country’s intelligence agencies public as a matter of principle.
Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
Ghana’s civil society has contributed to taming the power of a strong state.
The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and peoples’ movements in Africa.
The scale of the Guptas’ rapaciousness meant that, within just a few years, the institutions they leeched were in a state of collapse.
The willingness of the executive to pre-empt criticism by amending COVID regulations has arguably strengthened its position.
These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
South Africa’s public sector works somewhat better than those of most other middle-income countries. Yet, unlike them, it has not managed to achieve gains in the midst of messiness.
In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
A UN working group on cybersecurity is making incremental progress in highlighting the importance of including and protecting civilians.
How can democratic nations help fledgling democracies and others struggling against the tide of autocrats?
A social scientist argues that in the absence of strong government action, people took it upon themselves to work out conduct to stem the spread of virus.
Indonesia’s Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has become an icon of Indonesian civil society and a staunch defender of the public interest.
There is a growing lament in Australia that politicians let us down. But the lesson from the pandemic is that we, the people, have the power to change our economy and politics for a better future.
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Research Lead Sydney Policy Lab, Postdoctoral Fellow Geography, Host of ChangeMakers Podcast, University of Sydney
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Johns Hopkins University
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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Senior lecturer, St Petersburg State University
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Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), SOAS, University of London
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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ANZSOG Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
