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Authoritarianism
How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

Global Voices

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – (Globalvoices.org) – In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take exceptional measures to contain the pandemic. Liberal democracies from the United States, Canada to European countries, Malaysia and South Africa imposed emergency measures that restricted mobility under lockdowns. Likewise, in […]

Epidemics
Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

Global Voices

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Since the outbreak of COVID-19 started in Iran in February 2020, internal political clashes have prevented the authorities from adequately responding to the pandemic. As a result, Iran has become one of the worst affected countries: as of April 24, more than 88,000 Iranians have been infected […]

Authoritarianism
How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

Global Voices

By Khalid Ibrahim, Gulf Center for Human Rights | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul is one of many human rights defenders who remain in jail in the Middle East, despite multiple calls to release them amid COVID-19 fears. Photo credit: Loujain Al-Hathloul via OTRS system / CC BY-SA. COVID-19 cases […]

Yemen
Yemen’s looming environmental disaster as Saudi Arabia and US Pursue War on it

Yemen’s looming environmental disaster as Saudi Arabia and US Pursue War on it

Global Voices

Risk of a catastrophic oil spill, alarming water shortages and pollution, climate change, and other environmental disasters are adding to Yemen’s suffering

Russia
Russian Troops Triumphantly take over US Bases in Syria, Show off Social Media Skills

Russian Troops Triumphantly take over US Bases in Syria, Show off Social Media Skills

Global Voices

By Milan Czerny | – (GlobalVoices.org ) – For Russian soldiers, posting from the battleground was strictly forbidden. Then all of a sudden, it wasn’t “Yesterday they were here, today it’s us.” On October 15, the Russian conflict journalist Oleg Blokhin published several videos on social media of himself visiting the former US military base […]

Lebanon
The Map: Beirut’s Demonstrations as Live City-Making

The Map: Beirut’s Demonstrations as Live City-Making

Global Voices

By Filip Noubel | – (GlobalVoices.org) – The protests that have swept Lebanon since October 17, 2019 started as a reaction to the announcement by the government of new taxes. They have since evolved into a rejection of the political and economic model that has allowed local elites to maintain control over the country since […]

Turkey
Can Turkish Politics be Depolarized?

Can Turkish Politics be Depolarized?

Global Voices

By Sevgi Yagmur Bulut | – The ruling party is no longer in charge of the largest municipality In the end it was easy. Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposition candidate in Istanbul’s municipal election, swept to victory on June 23 with 54% of the votes, after a rerun ordered by the country’s main electoral authority. The […]

Green Energy
Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris

Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris

Global Voices

Dubai will build the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project on a single site in the world

Sudan
How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

How Women are leading the Sudanese Revolution

Global Voices

In 2017, 24 women were arrested for wearing trousers

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