The Vietnamese Government Must Immediately Disclose the Whereabouts and Guarantee the Safety of Religious Activist Y Quynh ...

Call for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression ...

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President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown. Noboa’s emergency declaration in 2024 followed a years-long security breakdown ...

Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law. In January 2025, a Russian court sentenced ...

This article was first published on Just Security. As Sudan marks two years since the eruption of war between rival military factions—the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

Citizens in Serbia are demanding a free and just society, but it remains unclear whether the larger democratic community will lend its support. Last November, 15 people were killed when a canopy ...

The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 34 registered improvements. WASHINGTON—Political ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...

Bernardo Arévalo overcame tremendous obstacles to become Guatemala’s president, but the old guard that tried to derail his campaign is now retaliating against his government to protect their own ...

The incoming president faces the difficult task of uniting a polarized country and navigating a world in great need of democratic leadership. WASHINGTON—In response to the election of Donald Trump to ...