Tag: human rights

• Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’

  February 21, 2025

  In August of 2023, as the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody 1973 coup d’état drew near, President Gabriel Boric of Chile stood before the presidential palace in downtown Santiago and… more ›

• Today, Explained: Guantanamo’s other history

  February 11, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/ecAMBny The Trump administration has begun detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay. For more than 40 years, the US has sent immigrants to Gitmo, explains Jeffrey Kahn of UC Davis,… more ›

• The Babelian Tower Of AI Alignment

  July 7, 2024

  As generative AI models become ever more powerful on their way to surpassing human intelligence, there has been much discussion about how they must align with human values so they… more ›

• What it’s like being a woman in Afghanistan today: ‘death in slow motion’

  July 30, 2022

  On early Monday morning, just before the break of dawn, a 23-year-old Afghan journalist packed her bags, said quiet goodbyes to her family and left her home in a carefully… more ›

• EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers

  September 29, 2020

  European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Amnesty International found that three… more ›

• The European Union may soon get its own Magnitsky Act to target human rights abusers

  September 20, 2020

  Amid a global assault on human rights stretching from Belarus to Hong Kong to Yemen, the European Union signaled yesterday that it may act to deter corrupt kleptocrats and state… more ›

• China’s Global Threat to Human Rights

  January 15, 2020

  An extraordinary threat requires a commensurate response—and much still can be done to defend human rights worldwide from Beijing’s frontal attack. Despite the Chinese government’s power and hostility to human… more ›

• The horrific consequences of rubber’s toxic past

  July 24, 2019

  The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the… more ›