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Ethiopia’s Ethnic Conflict Leads to Harsh Decrease in Rights

Since November of 2020, Ethiopia has been consumed by the ongoing conflict between the national government and rebels from the northernmost part...

July 2021 brought a period of unrest in Cuba, the likes of which had not been seen since the 1959 revolution with Fidel Castro. On July 11,...

On March 20th, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that United States forces would begin military exercises within Iraq. Among the coalition...

In October of last year, 2021, general elections for a national legislative body were held in Qatar for the first time. The legislature...

In December 2021, the United States held an international Summit For Democracy, inviting 100 nations to combat democratic backsliding. The invite...

Following a 35-year military dictatorship by Alfredo Stroessner that ended in 1989, Paraguay took steps toward democratization including the...

Recent scholarship on authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and state censorship has shifted its focus. Research on explicit abuses of power...

When we think about democratic backsliding, we tend to think about nations that have existed, in one form or another, for a reasonably long time...

On January 12th, 2022, a violent demonstration over vaccine and mask mandates from the far-right led to an attempt on seizing the Parliament...