The “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence

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Inside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s diplomatic offensive with Syria’s Christians and Ismailis

By Gregory Waters

HTS’s diplomatic offensive demonstrates the leadership’s political approach, which evolved over years of engaging with the Christian and Druze communities in Idlib.
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US peace initiative can help bring Ukraine’s abducted children home

By Kristina Hook, Iuliia Hoban

Securing the return of the thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since 2022 must play a part in the peace efforts recently initiated by US President Donald Trump, write Kristina Hook and Iuliia Hoban.
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The “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence

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Egyptian senator: The mass displacement of Gazans will only fuel Hamas’s extremist ideology

By Mohamed Farid

Displacing Palestinians from Gaza would perpetuate cycles of violence, deepen regional instability, and undermine Israel’s security.
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AfricaSource

May 1, 2020

The “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence

By Joanne Chukwueke

While lockdowns and social distancing measures have been essential in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, they have also produced unintended consequences: increased rates of domestic violence. As COVID-19 spreads in African countries, demand for support services for victims of gender-based violence continues to rise.

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Apr 28, 2020

Nia in Just Security: How to Hold Venezuela’s Maduro Accountable for Human Rights Abuses

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Apr 24, 2020

Nooruddin in The Hindu: Troughs and crests in the pandemic response

By Atlantic Council

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Borscht Belt

Apr 17, 2020

Why strongmen love the coronavirus

By Atlantic Council Eurasia Center

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, autocratic governments are finding the crisis to be a useful pretext for strengthening their rule and tightening their grips.

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In the News

Apr 14, 2020

Cimmino in Spectator USA: Curbing China’s rise should be America’s top priority

By Atlantic Council

Global Strategy Initiative program assistant Jeffrey Cimmino argues the United States needs to prioritize curbing China’s rise. China’s human rights abuses, expansionist impulses, and mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages show clearly that its authoritarian values are fundamentally incompatible with the rules-based order led by the United States and its allies for […]

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SouthAsiaSource

Apr 14, 2020

Surveying opinions from rural India on the COVID-19 lockdown

By South Asia Center

India is now several week into the government-mandated lockdown intended to control the spread of COVID-19. Led by Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr Edmond Fernandes, the CHD Group and the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center surveyed Indian citizens in rural Karnataka to capture the impact of the outbreak and lockdown on their access to public health services […]

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Apr 13, 2020

Younus in his podcast “Pakistonomy,” episode 13: What Caused the Sugar and Wheat Crises?

By Atlantic Council

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Apr 12, 2020

Book review of Nawaz’s “The Battle for Pakistan” in The Tribune: Insightful reading of Pakistan-US relations

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Apr 11, 2020

Hudson in allAfrica: Sudan’s revolution one year after the fall of the dictatorship

By Atlantic Council

Africa Democratic Transitions

New Atlanticist

Apr 10, 2020

India’s adoption of facial recognition technology could have serious ramifications

By Vappala Balachandran

The application of facial recognition technologies in India would almost certainly aid the country’s stretched law enforcement units and may prove useful in future incidents of public rioting or unrest. Given the state of current technologies, however, observers and government officials in India need to critically examine the reliability of this new platform and its potential to wrongfully infringe on the rights of innocent individuals.

Human Rights India
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Salam Nukta

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