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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

Advocacy

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

Democracy In Exile

Who's Afraid of Political Cartoons?

November 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza for a rally on January 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Officials are predicting at least 10,000 people will attend to protest the retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government following the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

On Yahia Lababidi's 'Palestine Wail' and the Poetry of Free Expression

November 22, 2024

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A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the area of Tayouneh in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 25, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel conducted strikes against Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold on November 25 and battles raged in Lebanon's south after the Iran-backed militant group claimed 50 attacks on Israeli targets the day before. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Following Lebanon ceasefire, investigate Israeli use of U.S. weapons to commit war crimes in Lebanon

November 27, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - JUNE 08: Demonstrators, wearing red clothes, hold banners and chant slogans in front of the White House as some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, gathered in front of the White House and called on the Joe Biden administration to 'red line', set up many tents in the area between the White House and the Washington Monument in the evening in Washington D.C, United States on June 08, 2024. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

After Election, DAWN Reaffirms Commitment to Reforming U.S. Foreign Policy and Holding Abusive Regimes Accountable

November 26, 2024

Tag: Sudan

A picture taken on March 20, 2024, shows people who fled Khartoum and Jazira states in war-torn Sudan sitting in the shade of their tents at a camp for the internally displaced in southern Gedaref state. After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned on March 20, slamming the international community for its lack of action. (Photo by AFP)

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Grassroots Aid Networks Are a Lifeline Amid Sudan's Humanitarian Catastrophe

Democracy In Exile

Forgetting Sudan's War Is a Privilege Sudanese Don't Have

Democracy In Exile

Civilian Voices Are Critical to Securing Real Peace in Sudan

Democracy In Exile

Only Leverage, Not International Pleas, Can End Sudan's War

Democracy In Exile

Sudan's Feared Paramilitary Leader Tries to Launder His Image, With Western Help

Democracy In Exile

Sudan's Young Revolutionaries Languish in Prison on Trumped-Up Charges

January 18, 2023

Sudan's top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks during a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum on October 26, 2021. - Angry Sudanese stood their ground in street protests against a coup, as international condemnation of the military's takeover poured in ahead of a UN Security Council meeting. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images)

Letter to UNGA Calls for Boycott of Sudanese Coup Leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan

September 15, 2022

Democracy In Exile

Sudan's Hopes for Democracy Face an Old, Familiar Foe in the Military

December 3, 2021

In an interview with DAWN, famed Sudanese visual artist Assil Diab discusses her artwork, her motivation, and how visual art, murals, and graffiti can bring communities together in a time of conflict.

Democracy In Exile

"It Was Easy for Them To Shoot You"; Nevertheless, Assil Diab Persisted

January 25, 2021

Sudanese women lift national flags by burning tyres as they take part in a demonstration on Sixty Street in the capital Khartoum, on May 23, 2020, to commemorate the first anniversary of a deadly crackdown carried out by security forces on Sudanese protesters during a sit-in outside army headquarters in the capital, with a death toll of over a 100. (Photo by Ashraf SHAZLY / AFP) (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Sudanese Women Participated in the 2019 Revolution, but Sidelined During the Democratic Transition

November 15, 2020

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