Tag: Minority Groups
38 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
The View of the Coup from the Camp: Myanmar’s Emergent Trans-Ethnic Solidarity
https://twitter.com/Natrani/status/1360993418445524999 The current protests also represent a rupture with past protest movements in Myanmar. The protesters’ spontaneous pivot…
March 17, 2021
- Conflict & Security
“Police Do Not Protect Me, My Female Friends Do”: Police Repression against Feminists in Mexico
The hashtag “la policía no me cuida, me cuidan mis amigas” has spread widely and rapidly across Mexico and Latin America. As in Latin America, Mexican feminists have used…
February 17, 2021
- Dialogues
Professor Cherian George on Hate Propaganda and Democracy
GJIA: In your book Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy, you show that the term ‘hate speech’ insufficiently describes the use of…
February 11, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Community and Health Governance in Myanmar during and after COVID-19
COVID-19 has exposed the real consequences of continual violence and Myanmar’s need for a strong health system to resolve conflict and instability. Although the WHO lauded…
January 28, 2021
- Forum: LGBTQ+ Issues in International Relations
- Human Rights & Development
Poles Wave the Rainbow Flag in “LGBTQI+-free zones”
Since the 2015 election of the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), Polish civil society has been under attack by the ruling party. This is particularly true for LGBTQI+…
January 21, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Status of Education and Minorities Rights in Turkey
Education in Turkey The teaching and use of minority languages in Turkey have been a controversial issue in education, and the Turkish state has often violated minority language…
December 20, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART II: A Call for Collective Punishment: LGBTQ in Post-Conflict Chechnya
How then should policymakers, activists, and scholars weigh the policy options? The main question is not whether human rights should be promoted in the region, but how? Stress on…
September 11, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART I: A Call for Collective Punishment: LGBTQ in Post-Conflict Chechnya
A useful lens for analyzing the current regime in Chechnya is to reflect upon the wave of violent detentions of LGBTQ that began with allegations in the Russian newspaper, Novaya…
September 4, 2020
- Society & Culture
Redefining Justice: How Local Perspectives of Genocide Memory Inform Policy and Practice in Rwanda
Redefining Justice The early transitional Rwandan government decided first to arrest and punish suspected perpetrators in international, national, and local courts. Other justice…
June 12, 2020
- Conflict & Security
False Positives in Thai Counterinsurgency
The insurgency began in January 2004. It currently involves three-and-a-half Muslim-Malay majority provinces in southern Thailand and has exacted a heavy human cost—roughly 7…
November 15, 2019