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Kurdish Population Faces New Challenges During Civil War

By DC Editors - October 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

Conflicts With Kurdish Population in Neighboring Countries Make Politics Highly Unstable

Iran Dictatorship Internal Violence Reminicint of North Korea

By Adrian Tawfik - October 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Rape, Torture and Murder Are Common For Any Group That Dissents in System Behind Iran Dictatorship Internal Violence

Iran Dictatorship Launches Crackdown on Iranian People

By DC Editors - February 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Fear reigns with escalated public executions while Iran dictatorship launches crackdown on freedom of expression ahead of this week’s parliamentary election

Venezuela ‘loosening grip’ on market, tightening on dissent (9/18/2019) - Nicolás Maduro, a long practitioner of tight state control of the economy, has quietly and…

Iran: Draconian Sentences for Rights Defenders

Cost of Peaceful Dissent Spikes in Iran as Rights Defenders receive Draconian Sentences (9/11/2019) - Iran’s judiciary is dramatically increasing the costs of peaceful dissent in Iran,Since July 31, revolutionary…

Podcast: The Past, Present, and Future of Protests (7/29/2019) - L.A. Kauffman is a longtime organizer and author of the book How to Read a Protest:…

How Digital Satire Is Keeping Dissent Alive In Egypt (7/19/2019) - Young people were at the forefront of the millions-strong 2011 uprising against the corrupt and…

Russia Must Release Crimean Political Prisoners and Civic Activists (7/14/2019) - Russian government’s systematic practice imprisoning Crimean residents because of their religious beliefs, ethnicity, civic activity…

Experts Urge Tajikistan To Comprehensively Address Enforced Disappearances

Experts Urge Tajikistan To Address Enforced Disappearances (7/7/2019) - Tajikistan faces significant challenges in dealing with the issue of enforced disappearances.“We leave Tajikistan with…

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: Taking the measure of the man (11/3/2019) - Putin has attempted to project power beyond Russia and has proven to be efficient. An…

US Government Suspends Economic Assistance to Cameroon over human rights violations (10/31/2019) - President Trump October 31, 2019, informed Congress he will suspend US economic assistance to Cameroon…

Freedom of Worship: Russia crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses escalates (10/29/2019) - Last week's raid on Jehovah's Witness campsite latest example of escalating crackdown in Russia on Jehovah's witnesses…

Ceding ground to dictators is ill-advised and here’s why (10/27/2019) - The world becomes unsafe in the absence of U.S. power. Ceding ground to dictators works…

“Liberal democracy ‘alien to human nature’? Intense battle for political minds and souls” (10/23/2019) - Dramatic debate between US strategist Stephen Bannon & French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy illustrates intensity of…