EU must use Brussels summit to demand end to crackdown in Azerbaijan
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 36 other human rights NGOs have released a joint open letter urging the European Union’s leaders to...
Reporters without Borders 1
Nov 13, 2017
Forced Into Genocide: Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army
Forced into Genocide is the riveting memoir of Yervant N. Alexanian : an eye-witness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and...
Adrienne Alexanian
Nov 8, 2017
'Traditional Values': A Potent Weapon Against LGBT Rights
By Graeme Reid People hold posters depicting victims of homophobic violence at a public event in St. Petersburg. ©2013 Mads Nissen/Panos...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 6, 2017
IDC 2017 Summit Highlights
Advocates from across the country gathered to protect and preserve Christians and religious minorities in the Middle East. Last week, IDC...
IDC
Nov 1, 2017
The Domestic Challenge to Kyrgyzstan’s Milestone Election
Kyrgyzstan’s forthcoming presidential elections on 15 October are a milestone for Central Asia: for the first time, a president from the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 10, 2017
The Rising Risks of Misrule in Tajikistan
I.Overview Tajikistan’s 25 years as an independent state have been marred by poverty, endemic state corruption and the steady narrowing...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 9, 2017
LGBT Refugees Find that Safety in West is Far from Absolute
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
Chechnya’s Long Arm of Retaliation Against Gay Men
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
Azerbaijan: Anti-Gay Crackdown
Isa Shahmarly, former chair of the Free (Azad) LGBT group, whose experience as a gay man in Azerbaijan, drove him to suicide. In...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 3, 2017
The Twists and Turns along China’s Belt and Road
“The project of the century” is how Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi touted the Belt and Road Initiative to the world when addressing the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 2, 2017
Tracking Conflict Worldwide - September 2017
Trends and Outlook In Asia, the continuing security crackdown in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State prompted over half a million Rohingya...
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 30, 2017
German Election No Time for Complacency on Turkey and Russia
By Hugh Williamson Activist Yulia Galyamina and her husband Nikolai Tuzhilin lie on the ground next to riot police during an...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 19, 2017
