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There are question marks over whether Nigeria's upcoming elections will be credible.
We're willing to fight for our freedom even at great cost.
Weakening the institutional as well as the symbolic functioning of the rule of law has the consequence of introducing new "risks", and thus creating more insecurity.
Are your new diet, exercise, meditation and self-care resolutions for 2019 really a personal choice? Or are you a model Western "biocitizen," living a life of unfreedom?
Did you know there has never been a safer time to be a child in Canada? Research shows that kids need freedom outdoors to explore exhilaration and fear, and discover their own limits.
Thousands marched in silence against racial violence after a riot left hundreds of blacks dead and thousands homeless. The demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as they did in 1917.
In a free society, it ought never to be lawful for a government to detain people by executive order alone.
New laws pending in Wisconsin and North Carolina would require public universities to punish students who disrupt campus speakers. But these laws would do more to hinder free speech than protect it.
Tehran is fostering a start-up industry as a possible motor to solve Iran's unemployment crisis.
There are groundswells of civic engagement in a handful of countries, but ensuring the survival of fundamental freedoms in these dangerous times will require a resistance that knows no borders.
Freedom of protest and dissent could not be more fundamental to the American project. Is it in mortal peril?
Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up "for their own safety", which new research says isn't usually needed.
Namibia contributes a positive image to Africa in governance and other indicators. But the reality for most of the country’s 2.3 million people isn't quite as rosy.
The idea behind much of Kenya’s legislation enacted by the colonialists was to separate whites from other races. So why are these laws still on the books?
Self-determination, freedom of thought, choice of risk arguably have freed society, but then there's inequality, ill-health and narcissism.
The public must prepare to stand up for a free press, and against online censorship and surveillance.
The deadly attack on Holey bakery in July 2016 and a recent spate of crimes against minorities show that Bangladesh's commitment to secularism and pluralism are at stake.
The creation of a UN special rapporteurship on the right to development should help develop practical solutions on how the right could be realised.
Today’s anarchists should give up the fantasy of 'abolishing the state'. That simply plays into the agenda of the rich and privileged.
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Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate and Research Officer at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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Simon Rice is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Law; Director of Law Reform and Social Justice, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Philosophy, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia
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Research Economist, United Nations University
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Professor of Political Theory and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
