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Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

What the Collapse of the Assad Regime Means for Israel

December 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Is Saudi Arabia Serious About Joining the BRICS?

December 4, 2024

Advocacy

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

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

Democracy In Exile

'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

December 20, 2024

Democracy In Exile

'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

No Safe Haven: Algeria's Transnational Repression of Dissidents

December 17, 2024

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Democracy In Exile

'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

December 20, 2024

Democracy In Exile

'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

No Safe Haven: Algeria's Transnational Repression of Dissidents

December 17, 2024

Tag: UAE

A general view shows the Dubai court where an appeal was upheld on February 17, 2008 for two 15-year jail terms handed down against two Emiratis convincted of raping a French-Swiss teenager. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Legal Reform in the UAE? Don't Let Looks Deceive You

February 8, 2021

TUNIS, TUNISIA - JANUARY 24: Protesters congregate outside the formerly feared Interior Ministry on Avenue Habib Bourguiba on January 24, 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia. Protesters from the countryside and the hamlet of Sidi Bouzid, the town where the 'Jasmine Revolution' started, walked through the night to descend on the prime minsiters office where they tore down razor wire barricades. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Tunisia 10 Years After the Arab Spring: A Success Story Threatened by UAE and Saudi Arabia

January 15, 2021

Constitutional Lawyer Mohammad al-Roken Asked for Reform in the UAE But Got 10 Years in Prison Instead

December 21, 2020

A picture taken from a UAE military vehicle on August 8, 2018 during a trip in Yemen organised by the UAE's National Media Council (NMC) shows Yemeni soldiers loyal to the Saudi and UAE-backed government riding armed pickups through a mountain road north of the southeastern city of Mukalla, the capital Hadramawt province. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP) (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

The UAE Arms Deal: In Search of Security or more Instability?

December 14, 2020

International Actors

Biden Must Block Trump's Arms Sale to the UAE

December 10, 2020

Democracy In Exile

Biden Must Block Trump's Arms Sale to the UAE

December 10, 2020

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Yemeni Red Crescent workers carry a victim on a stretcher amid the rubble of a destroyed funeral hall building following reported airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition air-planes on the capital Sanaa on October 8, 2016.
Rebels in control of Yemen's capital accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting them of killing or wounding dozens of people in air strikes on Sanaa. The insurgent-controlled news site sabanews.net said that coalition planes hit a building in the capital where people had gathered to mourn the death of an official, resulting in "dozens of dead or wounded". / AFP / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN Joins Nationwide Coalition Urging US to End Participation in Yemen War

December 4, 2020

TOPSHOT - US President-elect Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020. - US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the deeply experienced Antony Blinken for secretary of state, also nominating the first female head of intelligence and a czar for climate issues, with a promise to a return to expertise after the turbulent years of Donald Trump. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Ending the Yemen War: President Biden Should Deny Arms to the UAE and Saudi Arabia on Day One

December 3, 2020

Yemenis search for survivors under the rubble of houses in the UNESCO-listed heritage site in the old city of Yemeni capital Sanaa, on June 12, 2015 following an overnight Saudi-led air strike. Residents said the pre-dawn strike, which killed five people was the first direct hit on old Sanaa since the launch of the bombing campaign against Huthi rebels in late March. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN joins more than 80 organizations in asking Biden to end US participation in Yemen war

December 1, 2020

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 17, 2019: A Lockheed Martin F-35 combat aircraft performs at the 2019 Dubai Airshow. Marina Lystseva/TASS (Photo by Marina LystsevaTASS via Getty Images)

DAWN joins international coalition opposing US plans to sell weapons to UAE

November 30, 2020

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