Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro today “put the country’s electricity supplies on an emergency footing after Caracas and outlying areas plunged into darkness amid repeated blackouts,” UPI reports: Power cuts were a recurring problem for late President Hugo …
“Repressive governments around the world have been getting some help from Western technology,” writes The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Rhoads:
Filtering devices built by Blue Coat Systems, an Internet-security company in Sunnyvale, Calif., have been used by the Syrian …
The US Treasury State Department today published a list of 18 Russian officials subject to financial sanctions and visa travel bans because of their alleged human rights abuses.
But the pared down list disappointed rights advocates who noted the omission …
Hungary’s democratic regression is causing alarm within the European Union and EU member states.
The country’s parliament yesterday passed constitutional amendments limiting the powers of the constitutional court in a move which observers believe will undermine democratic checks and …
“History is cluttered with the examples of academics, philosophers, renowned writers, and eminent advocates of humane ideals who have aligned themselves with or apologized for the world’s most despicable tyrants,” said Arch Puddington, vice president of research at …
March 5th marks the beginning of the 12th National People’s Congress, where Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is expected to assume full power as President and head of the Central Military Commission. Ahead of the congress, influential activists and scholars …
“The State Department and USAID are increasing their humanitarian aid for Syria but have no intention of moving any of that money through the Syrian opposition coalition, as several senators have called for,” The Cable’s Josh Rogin reports:
U.S. …
Eurasia’s authoritarian regimes use “bribes and gifts” to prevent the Council of Europe from criticizing “rampant human rights violations,” says a senior European diplomat.
That’s another reason why Europe needs an autonomous nongovernmental body to advance democracy and human rights, …
Pro-democracy and human rights advocates have denounced the detention of a leading Zimbabwean activist.
Okay Machisa (left), director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) is the most recent victim of a concerted crackdown on civil society activists in the run- …
“The disappearance nearly one month ago of Sombath Somphone, a United States-trained agriculture specialist who led one of the most successful nonprofit organizations in Laos, has baffled his family and friends and raised alarms that a nascent liberalization of the …