People gather to protest over high cost of living in Tehran, Iran on December 30, 2017. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

 

Citizens have long been excluded from policymaking, and they don’t like the results.

The government of Ethiopia announced that it will release all political prisoners and close the notorious Central Crime Investigation Center.

The world’s democracies should together call on Iranian authorities to respect the rights of the country’s citizens, including their rights to assemble and express themselves peacefully.

Internet Freedom Election Monitor

Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net project has estimated the risk of restrictions on internet freedom during upcoming elections in selected countries.

The Trump administration decided to impose financial and travel sanctions on more than a dozen individuals responsible for serious human rights abuses and corruption – sanctions that were created by the Global Magnitsky Act passed by Congress in 2016.

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