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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).
Is This Tyranny? Notes from the election’s sidelines
"A funny thing happened in 2008: I lost the right to vote. Having been a non-resident of Canada for five years, I could no longer cast an absentee ballot. And not being a citizen of the United States, I could not, still cannot, vote where I live. So there it is. I am, in the eyes of the world’s elections agencies, an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere." (Mohamed, 2020)
Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus
“Many Americans now rely on digital tools to work remotely and stay connected. They shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy to use them” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
The Virus in the Body Politic
"In authoritarian China and democracies such as the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the infections that societies have left in each other – and the loss of a sense of shared destiny" (Weiwei, 2020)
Europe’s approach to AI governance: time for a vision
"The immediate reflex to turn to AI to help tackle the outbreak of COVID-19… is a topical case in point. Coordinating AI policies at the EU level could secure a level playing field of protection and benefits for European citizens… and leverage Europe’s strengths on the global market" (Smuha 2020).
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