All tagged Human Rights

If one looks closely enough at the patterns, prostitution in South Asia inadvertently leads to sex slavery and forced prostitution. In South Asia, there are no comprehensive statistics available to identify what percentage of women in prostitution are victims of sex slavery and what percentage enter the profession voluntarily — a question which quickly becomes a loose assumption based on illiteracy, poverty, loss of traditional livelihoods, and wide economic disparities.

While UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for a global ceasefire on March 23rd was met with encouraging responses from many state and non-state actors, its effects on the ground are complex and difficult to predict. To gather insight on the potential effects of COVID-19 on the prospects for renewed peace efforts, Daniel Odin Shaw interviews Dr. Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, a Research Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Following Trump’s announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from parts of Syria, Turkey launched a military operation on Kurdish forces in Northeastern Syria. Not only is Europe's future relationship with Turkey at risk, but its relations with the wider Middle East, its reputation and credibility as a defender of human rights and democracy, and its geopolitical interests are all at stake.

Conceptually, this law presupposes a case where the Runet would need to be disconnected from the rest of the global network infrastructure due to threats to its stable and safe operation on Russian territory. However, many critics claim that this bill strikes a huge blow to Internet freedom in Russia. The capabilities that the Russian government now has could usher in a new era of widespread censorship.