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Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

Jordan’s parliamentary elections in September 2024 attracted global media attention due to the plurality of votes for the country’s leading Islamist political party, the Islamic Action Front, and provided King

Jordan: Analyzing the 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

(Washington D.C, April 15, 2025) - Dismal voter participation in Jordan’s 2024 parliamentary election and the Islamic Action Front’s dramatic electoral gains are a product of King Abdullah’s expanding political

Iraq, U.S., Israel, Russia: Secure Release of Unjustly Detained Scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov

(New York, April 10, 2025): The Iraqi, U.S., Israeli, and Russian governments should make all efforts to secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a 38-year-old U.S.-based scholar with dual Russian

DAWN Response to Senate Vote on Arms Sales to Israel

In response to the U.S. Senate’s April 3, 2025, vote rejecting two resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders to block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel, DAWN issues the

DAWN's 2024 Annual Report

The past year has been a trying one for the Middle East, with Israel’s catastrophic war in Gaza that has spread as far as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran, aided

U.S. Strikes on Yemen are Unconstitutional and Violate U.N. Charter

Washington D.C., March 26, 2025 – U.S. airstrikes across Yemen since March 15 are unconstitutional acts of war that lack congressional authorization, said the organizations DAWN, Action Corps, and Just

Morocco: Activist Sentenced for Peaceful Speech

(Beirut, March 27, 2025) – A Casablanca Court on March 3, 2025, sentenced a prominent activist, Fouad Abdelmoumni, to six months in prison and fines over a Facebook post, Human

DAWN Welcomes Deirdre O'Brien as Director of Development

(Washington, D.C., March 27, 2025) – Deirdre O’Brien, a fundraising and international human rights expert, has joined DAWN as Director of Development, the organization announced today.

U.N: Investigate Bulldozers Used by Israel for Home Demolitions in Gaza, West Bank

(Washington D.C., March 18, 2025) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing should investigate U.S. company Caterpillar Inc.’s role in Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian

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