by Rajvi Amin | Apr 14, 2021 | Georgia State University
The violation of human rights is a tough price to pay to bring stability to a country, at least in the eyes of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. al-Sisi has been in office since 2014, after leading a military coup-d’etat against the Islamist President Mohammed...
by Nicole B | Apr 6, 2021 | Rollins College
For just over a year the world has been swept up in a pandemic. This pandemic has affected nearly every person on Earth in some way or another. According to the Economist in The Pandemic has Eroded Democracy and Respect Human Rights the virus has taken a big toll on...
by Sarah Saintius | Apr 4, 2021 | Georgia State University
Protests in Haiti, 2020. Haiti has long been in a state of revolt, as far back as the colonial age. Since Haiti declared independence in 1804, the country has had no luck in maintaining a stable democracy. From funding militias of slave masters to embargoes from...
by Emma DeGrandi | Mar 11, 2021 | Northeastern University
Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán has passed a series of measures effectively curtailing the civil liberties of the country’s LGBTQ+ citizens. A well-established populist, Orbán seeks to reshape the state into one that upholds Christian values with...
