Finally, Iran has acknowledged the series of protests sweeping through the country in the past few days
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Protests Across Iran Call For ‘Fall of Dictatorship’
Iran has an unemployment rate of 12.4 percent, a stagnant economy and rampant inflation
Vietnam’s 10,000-strong cyber censorship army criticized
The deployment of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam adds a grim “new dimension” to controls on free speech in the Communist country, a rights group has said. Vietnam routinely jails its critics and closely monitors activists on social media, which is not banned unlike in neighbouring China. A top Vietnamese general […]
Reporters face obstacle run in corruption-hit Bulgaria
Bulgaria is the new holder of the EU presidency but also ranked as the bloc’s worst press freedom violator
Anti-government Iranian protests spread to capital
Iranian police mobilized to quell a third straight day of nationwide anti-government demonstrations
Venezuela opposition aims to unify behind one candidate in 2018 poll
Venezuela’s fractured opposition said Friday it planned to drop competing agendas to unify behind a single candidate in the 2018 presidential elections in which leader Nicolas Maduro is seeking a new mandate. “We promise to boost our unity… and will proceed with selecting a single candidate,” the main grouping, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) coalition, […]
A big year for Latin American elections in 2018
Next year will be a big election year for Latin America, a region where democracy in many countries is only decades young, and where the shadow of corruption stretches wide and long. Half of the population across the region is being called to cast ballots. Here are the main points of note concerning the polls […]
Poland edges away from Democracy
So far the 21st century is seeming a perilous place for late 20th century democracy values, norms and mores. There’s now considerable concern over Poland’s evolution in Europe. The Christian Science Monitor offers this editorial: The European Union has drawn a line in the sand with Poland. The issue is whether that country, which, along […]
Liberia’s George Weah Prepares to Form New Government
The soccer legend, now a politician, George Manneh Weah, is very hopeful that he would be declared winner of the December 26 Presidential Runoff. He’s already putting up a team “to go to the drawing board,” he said. Weah lost one Presidential election to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2005. In 2011, going as a […]
Pakistan allowing women to be barred from voting
It is disappointing that political parties in Pakistan consider themselves above those very same laws that comprise and constitute the work of legislators from their own party members sitting in Parliament. On 21st December, women voters in the Shahikhel Talash, Samarbagh and Darora tehsil councils were barred from voting during the local government by-elections, as […]