The truth is that a world without dictators may not be such a lark. Yes, it has never been harder than it is today to be a dictator. An army of Western experts and activists now stands at the ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s just released Democracy Index 2021 divides the world’s 167 largest countries ... first can be the difference, and today it’s easier than ever.

Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day. To mark 30 years since the United Nations General Assembly designated the day, a special event will be held at the UN headquarters ...

The proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women is hardly a radical document. For example, it proposes that women have the right to file legal complaints against their ...

Hopefully there are students writing their dissertations on this, but my personal analysis is that three things happened: The Myanmar dictatorship ... today; we no longer have to live in a world ...

Bashar Assad never intended to go into politics. He became one of the world's most brutal dictators, whose thuggish rule ended abruptly when rebels stormed into Damascus Saturday night ...

For years, he was kept inside a blue plastic box on a shelf with hundreds of other boxes containing unidentified human remains believed to belong to victims of the brutal military dictatorship ...