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How Iran’s Democracy Movement Can Win: Reflections From a Tiananmen Survivor
14 Jan 2026 00:42 GMT
… in the Tiananmen Democracy Movement at Tiananmen Square in … a genuine chance of meaningful democratic change. First, there must be … over linking trade to human rights, championed by figures such … in the Tiananmen Democracy Movement at Tiananmen Square in …
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Iran’s Third Option: The Strategic Significance of Organized Resistance
29 Jan 2026 16:29 GMT
… detained, according to opposition and human rights reporting. In parts of Isfahan … are decided by whether a movement can sustain organization under repression … intervention nor dynastic restoration, but democratic change driven from within. Rajavi’s …
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Lawsuit filed over paper book ban at MDC
09 Dec 2025 21:31 GMT
… , N.M. – The Human Rights Defense Center has filed a … , County Manager Cindy Chavez, MDC Warden Steven Smith, and other … as defendants. HRDC claims MDC violated a previous settlement by … process for appealing censorship. MDC recently instituted a new policy …
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How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon
23 Aug 2025 11:41 GMT
… assembly, expression, information, and movement. Protections universally enjoyed by the … including Helsinki Watch, forerunner of Human Rights Watch. Subsequently, these entities … in democracy-building,” warning “democratic change” in Warsaw could not be …
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‘It’s a farce’: families of Venezuela political prisoners still await their release
26 Jan 2026 12:41 GMT
… Venezuelan jails.
Orlando Moreno, a human rights activist who lives in hiding … Venezuela’s “new political movement” would involve rapid democratic change.
“Releasing [political] prisoners … vis-à-vis democracy and human rights. “It’s a survival mechanism …
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Museveni outlines 5-year agenda amid deadly crackdown on opposition
26 Jan 2026 10:41 GMT
… his family, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), state institutions, and citizens … Mafabi of the Forum for Democratic Change and Mugisha Muntu of the … an open letter to Museveni.
Human rights organisations have similarly criticised Ugandan …
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A Rare Bipartisan Triumph: Congress Backs Democratic Change in Iran
14 Jun 2025 03:57 GMT
In an era where political division is the norm, bipartisanship in Washington is a rare and fragile thing. Yet, even in these polarized times, a unifying thread remains: a shared belief in human rights and moral clarity. This was reaffirmed when a historic …
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Iran’s Protests Are a Turning Point for the Islamic Republic
24 Jan 2026 16:41 GMT
… crushing a popular movement that asked for peaceful democratic change within the confines … contrast with the 2009 Green Movement’s reformist demands, they called … .” These statements came from scholars, human rights and civil society activists, lawyers …
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International conference calls for democratic change in Iran
20 May 2025 17:52 GMT
An international conference under the slogan ‘Towards a Democratic Republic’ was held at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the Iranian opposition coalition, located on the outskirts of Paris.
The event brought together …
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Kwekwe human rights defender goes into hiding
16 May 2025 18:42 GMT
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MAKESURE Choga, a Kwekwe based human rights defender and leader of Mbizo … General Elections’; ‘The Recalls of MDC-A Legislators and Judicial Political … topics include ‘The Increase of human rights abuse in the Country’; ‘The …