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The Vietnamese Government Must Immediately Disclose the Whereabouts and Guarantee the Safety of Religious Activist Y Quynh ...

Call for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression ...

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Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

Ethiopia has seen dramatic political changes this year, but significant challenges remain. The United States should seize this opportunity to support a genuine democratic transition in a pivotal ...

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