The expulsion of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is one of many ways in which the international community is condemning the Islamic Republic of…
In May 2022, Lebanon held parliamentary elections for the first time since the 2019 political revolution and the 2020 Beirut blast. Lebanon now faces a political corruption crisis and economic…
The new year in Kazakhstan started with protests after the government’s decision to transition to a market-based pricing mechanism for fuel. This led to a sharp increase in the price…
Since the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan has been on a path towards democratization and civil rule. However, the 2021 military coup in the country represents a…
Korea’s remaining comfort women continue the world’s longest-running protest against their enslavement as sex workers during World War II. Japan has refused to apologize officially for these war crimes. Protests…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inherent inequality and poverty prevalent in most countries throughout the world. This rings especially true in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the hardest…
At the end of April 2021, a series of protests began in Colombia after the government proposed a new tax reform. Following the public outcry that ensued, the government retracted…