A new study found that vilifying protesters in public and through the media has been key to state repression tactics.

A United Nations authority on environmental activism says rising state repression of environmental defenders in Europe threatens human rights and democracy, citing international legal frameworks with ...

This week marks three years since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO allies from Afghanistan. It also marks three years of intensifying repression of women under the Taliban regime in what the UN ...

The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly ...

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