Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of this expanding global issue.

Joshua Kurlantzick is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Annabel Richter is a research associate for Southeast Asia and South Asia at CFR. In ...

The Human Rights Watch executive director, Philippe Bolopion, urged senior Congolese officials to respect freedom of ...

Democratic governments have spent the past decade debating how authoritarianism erodes freedom within the borders of a particular country. Far less attention has been paid to how authoritarianism now ...

Repression is when you block out difficult emotions, memories, and thoughts unconsciously. Your repressed memories may lead to anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms like headaches and chronic ...

Is there a way to stop Chinese repression in Western countries without compromising efforts to reform the immigration system? Transnational repression, defined by the proposed Transnational Repression ...

In a recent post, I noted how Thailand has increasingly become the Southeast Asian hub of transnational repression. Across mainland Southeast Asia, transnational repression—of political activists, ...

Climate and environmental protest is being criminalised and repressed around the world. The criminalisation of such protest has received a lot of attention in certain countries, including the UK and ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...