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Blog Post Archive
Freedom House: In Need of Change, Tajikistan Gets a Crackdown
by Nate Schenkkan ( Follow on Twitter at @nateschenkkan) Senior Program Associate, Eurasia When Zayd Saidov announced in April that he and some other leading...
John Dramani Mahama: The Big Push to Defeat HIV & AIDS in Ghana
The goal of Universal Access to prevention, treatment care and support and to ensuring zero transmission of HIV in children may appear to be a daunting task. But it is achievable. The driving force for realization of this goal is the mobilization of resources for implementation.
Committee to Protect Journalists: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan democracy, and journalist murders
By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program CoordinatorNawaz Sharif is poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister in the first peaceful transition of civilian governments in the...
John Seager: Family Planning Helps People Thrive in a Changing World
Those likely to face the most devastating effects of climate change are people -- especially women -- in the poorest parts of the world. People already eking out a living will face serious new challenges to their ability to provide for their families. So how can we best help them?
Nancy Schwartzman: Bollywood Actors Stand Up Against Violence
As we celebrate the support and endorsement from Bollywood actors to stop domestic violence and promote women's rights, we can't help but wonder where that same support is in the U.S. and the Western World.
James Dorsey: Saudi Arabia to Allow Women Into Stadiums
Saudi Arabia, under domestic and international pressure to grant women sporting rights, is creating separate stadium sections so that female spectators and journalists can attend soccer matches in a country that has no public physical education or sporting facilities for women.
Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland: Guatemala and the Case for Education About Genocide
While there is widespread consensus that education about the Holocaust and genocide should be included in school curricula, there is stunningly little research on the purpose of such education and how to teach it.
Marco Cáceres: A Word to the Wise on Corruption in Honduras
The only hope for reducing corruption in Honduras lies with bottom-up approaches that first deal with the problems that encourage, force people to steal, cheat, manipulate, lie, and commit fraud.
David Gosset: The China Dream and the Liyuan Style
While the West seems preoccupied by the conservation of an obsolete global order, China drives the making of a new world.
Penelope Andrew: Augustine vs. Charcot: Transference and Countertransference in the Struggle for a Voice and a Cure
Charcot's interventions with Augustine run the gamut -- from gentle, sensuous spoon-feedings to physical torture using a device of his own invention, known as the ovary compressor.
Nake M. Kamrany: Securing Peace in Afghanistan After US Withdrawal
Afghans have resisted foreign troops from antiquity until the present at an enormous cost of lives and wealth. The current resistance is no exception. The critical question, especially for Afghans, to consider is the issue of peace and war following the withdrawal of foreign troops.
SidneyAnne Stone: The Afghan-China Connection
So, why we still have troops in Afghanistan? The list of reasons are endless, depending on whom you ask. One might even say the United States is keeping troops in Afghanistan as a way of maintaining leverage over China due to our recently acquired debt.
Sigurd Neubauer: Somalia: A Terrorist-Piracy Nexus?
Significant strides have been made in recent years towards combating piracy, especially off the coast of Somalia, but a robust international grand strategy is urgently needed in order to forestall an ever more dangerous global threa...
Trita Parsi: Iran's March to Naked Dictatorship?
While a very slight glimmer of hope existed after the fraudulent elections in 2009 that the negative trajectory could be reversed through the ballot box, even that small probability may now have been eliminated.
Otaviano Canuto: China: The Morphing Dragon
The Chinese economy has changed dramatically over the last three decades. While its per-capita income was only a third of that of Sub-Saharan Africa in...
William K. Barth: The Problem With Partition: Human Rights Provides an Alternative to Israel and the Palestinians
Since Israelis and Palestinians live interspersed they are already compelled to cooperate on areas of mutual responsibility such as border security, migration, right-of-return, dual-citizenship, public services, trade and employment...
Daniel Wagner: Can Colombia and the FARC Make Peace?
The nearly half century of war between the government of Colombia and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) that left over half a million Colombians dead and three million displaced may finally be coming to an end.
Sahr MuhammedAlly: A Check on Lethal Aid to Syria
Syria is awash with weapons. Introducing more -- whether small arms or sophisticated anti-aircraft platforms -- without robust civilian protection training, accountability for unlawful conduct, and disarmament planning can become lethal for Syrians.
John Feffer: The Politics of Memory
America is the land of "move on." That's the name of the organization whose original mission was to persuade the U.S. electorate to move on...
Tonya Hurley: Searching For The Bony Lady
She goes, I was told, by many names: Lady Of Shadows. Holy Girl. Lady of the Night. The Skinny Lady. Santa Sebastiana. Frowned upon by the Church and the upper classes, worshiped secretly for centuries by the working classes, Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of the downtrodden.