Democratic governments should not be fooled by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent attempts to curry favor with the United States. Lukashenka must be held accountable for his domestic repression and for ...

Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity,” according to ...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul five years ago this month. That was an explosive example of “transnational ...

Jonathan Combs-Schilling, associate professor of Italian at Ohio State, submitted this letter on behalf of the university’s chapter of Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine. FSJP comprises faculty, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The rise of transnational repression—ranging from digital threats, family ...

When most people think of Occupy Oakland, they will tend to remember the most spectacular events–the first police raid on Oscar Grant Plaza resulting in an Iraq War veteran being nearly killed by a ...

On 26 September 2022, a university professor, two former lawmakers, a Cantopop singer and a Catholic cardinal were charged by the Hong Kong government for failing to register a humanitarian aid fund ...

When do persecuted ethnic minority groups choose to assimilate into the dominant majority group, rather than differentiate from it, and how do states respond? We argue that any answer to these ...

For more on the 2021 Emerson College incident associated with this image, see the bottom of this post. From today's long and detailed Washington Post article by Shibani Mahtani, Meg Kelly, Cate Brown, ...

The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on an additional 12 individuals and 8 entities for their role in the ongoing internal repression and human rights abuses in Belarus. These ...

I am deeply alarmed about the aggressive buildup and militarization of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). What began as an immigration enforcement agency is rapidly evolving into ...

A cautious Federal Reserve kept policy rates unchanged during the first half of 2025. It was trying to ascertain whether the Trump administration’s protectionist measures would result in a one-time ...