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How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election
In the midst of a global pandemic, “South Korea has drawn on its strengths as a liberal society to address the public health crisis — and this week its people doubled-down on democracy by turning out in droves to re-elect its leadership” (John Delury, 2020).
Europe: Human Rights In Europe - Review Of 2019
"This report documents the state of human rights in Europe during 2019. It is composed of a regional overview and 35 country entries, subdivided by key human rights themes." (Amnesty International, 2020)
Human Rights In Eastern Europe And Central Asia - Review Of 2019
"This report documents the state of human rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2019. It is composed of a regional overview and 12 country entries, subdivided by key human rights themes."
Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?
Moyers interviews journalist David Daley, who states that we are seeing an “intense politicization of democracy and voting rights itself. And that plays against a background of this last decade and longer, what has become extreme minority rule in this country” (Moyers and Daley, 2020).
Supporting fair tax systems
This joint Oxfam and Action Aid report examines how the EU’s aid to DRM is disbursed looking at what we consider essential for a good quality DRM project: country and regional ownership of DRM, fairness, inclusiveness and local empowerment. Essentially: more revenue collected in a more progressive way, under a robust and inclusive process locally.
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline
"States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats... States of emergency should be associated with a heightened risk of autocratization... This paper tests this relationship using data on sixty democracies for 1974 to 2016" (Lührman and Rooney, 2020).
World Federalism, Global Democracy and Coronavirus
"The coronavirus crisis shows the consequences of the enormous contradiction under which seven billion human beings live now: a world globalized by technology and economy but politically divided into almost 200 national states all taking separate and uncoordinated measures. Does anyone still believe this can work?" (Iglesias, 2020)
Human Rights In Africa: Review Of 2019
"This report documents the state of human rights in the countries sub-Saharan Africa during 2019. It is composed of a regional overview and 34 country entries, subdivided by key human rights themes. Africa faces numerous human rights challenges." (Amnesty International, 2020)
Europe Poised to Repeat Austerity Mistakes in Coronavirus Response
“The European Union is ill suited for crisis...it’s all happening again over Covid-19, this time amplified by fear and death on a continent struggling with half of the world’s 1.4 million confirmed cases” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
Democracy & Justice: Collected Writings 2019
“The extent to which DHS exploits social media information is buried in jargon-filled notices about changes to document storage systems that impart only the vaguest outlines of the underlying activities...This report seeks to map out the department’s collection, use, and sharing of social media information” (Patel et al., 2020).
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