
Pointing subtly to the four men working on laptops on the other side of the café, our guide said softly, “Those are the Russians.” In cafés, restaurants and hotel lobbies throughout Central Asia, we saw similar scenes: young to middle-aged Russian men working on spreadsheets and databases, earbuds in place, sometimes speaking quietly into microphones.
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The news is filled with stories of migrants, many of whom are asylum seekers, struggling to gain access to safe states and of the poor treatment with which they are met when they finally do. In the United States, many governors near the border with Mexico have taken to rounding up migrants and forcibly sending them north. In the Mediterranean
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On March 2, 2023, CIPS and Fòs Feminista hosted a webinar to discuss the responses of local feminist organizations to the growing humanitarian crises along the borders of Venezuela, Haiti and Poland. We learned that these local feminist organizations fill essential gaps left by the government and other public institutions. The services they provide reveal
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Being gay in Uganda has never been easy. It just got a lot worse, and a lot more dangerous. Against fierce domestic and international pressure from human rights defenders, President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law one of the harshest anti-gay bills in the world. Homosexual activity was already illegal in Uganda, but the new Anti-Homosexuality Act means that
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