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Under a new national-security law, Hong Kong is already a changed city
“Hong kongers had long worried that the Communist Party would transform the territory by stealth into just another Chinese city. In the past few days, armed with a new national-security law which it imposed on Hong Kong on June 30th, it has been doing so brazenly...Hong Kong is changing fast” (The Economist, 2020).
Gender Justice in global Supply Chains
“This paper focuses on women and girls because of their strong presence in numerous supply chains. They experience economic human rights violations in different ways to men. The reasons for this range from discriminatory socio-economic structures and practices to patriarchal and class-based social and cultural norms” (Borkenhagen et al., 2020).
An Advocacy Toolkit for Fiscal Justice and Human Rights
“The aim of the Toolkit is to support organizations interested in carrying out effective advocacy on fiscal policy issues using the human rights lens/approach as an instrument” (Center for Economic and Social Rights, 2020).
Democracy in Southeast Asia: Between Discontent and Hope
This report examines Southeast Asia’s democratic discontent and its strategic implications for the region. Drawing on empirical data and informed by conversations with officials and practitioners, it argues that Southeast Asia’s democratic discontent is rooted in several key strategic drivers and creates both opportunities and challenges that need to be properly understood and managed by regional states and external actors, including the United States and like-minded partners.
Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting
This report proposes universal civic duty voting as a necessary step toward full electoral participation and thus wider and more comprehensive and inclusive representation in the body of voters and resulting issue decisions and opinions. The authors also claim that civic duty voting will challenge contemporary voter suppression efforts.
Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?
“Far too often Mr. Zuckerberg has chosen to allow posts spewing bigotry and lies to remain on Facebook in the name of free speech. Now, a thorough and damning audit of the company, two years in the making and solicited by Facebook, confirms those fears” (Greg Bensinger, 2020).
Borders Won't Protect Your Country from Coronavirus
“With limited health resources, widespread poverty, large debt burdens and, in some cases, political instability and conflict, developing countries are the new front line in the pandemic” (Robert E. Rubin and David Miliband, 2020).
Deliberative democracy and progressivism
"Democracy doesn’t always best represent the interests of citizens. How can we make democracy more inclusive and transparent? Promoting active citizenship would be a good place to start" (Sotgiu 2020).
The Neoliberal Looting of America
“The current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market is completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors” (Mehrsa Baradaran, 2020).
We Socialize Bailouts. We Should Socialize Successes, Too.
“Governments have spent trillions on stimulus packages without creating structures — like a citizens’ dividend, which would reward public investment — that turn short-term remedies into the means for an inclusive, sustainable economy. This gets to the heart of what fuels inequality: We socialize risks but privatize rewards” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2020).
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