Isabella Chon

On 24 March 2018, former Catalan President Carlos Puigdemont was detained by German police as he crossed into Germany from Denmark. Living in self-imposed exile in Brussels since October, Puigdemont was traveling from Finland to Belgium…
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Earlier this month, the political crisis in the small island nation of the Maldives deepened when tensions arose between incumbent President Abdulla Yameen and the Maldivian Supreme Court. Previously in 2012, turmoil began when Mohamed…
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Seven years after Tunisians fought to depose longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a revolution that subsequently set the Arab Spring into motion, protests are once again being mobilized across the country. Every January since the 2011…
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Earlier this year, China and India accentuated their longstanding strategic rivalry with an unprecedented 10-week standoff in the Doklam plateau. Situated in the Himalayas at around 10,000 feet above sea level, Doklam is considered part of…
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Following a landslide election victory at the end of October 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised to challenge what he considered the country’s pressing national crises: persistent deflation, an aging population and the…
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Over the past month, the Philippines has undergone a series of legislative changes that have exacerbated its declining human rights situation and its effects on the poor. In early September, the Philippine government rejected 154 of the 257…
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After a two-week disappearance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the remains of United Nations Humanitarian Experts Swede Zaida Catalán, American Michael Sharp, and their Congolese interpreter Betu Tshintela were discovered in…
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Hong Kong’s chief executive elections, one of the city’s most anticipated political events, are scheduled to take place shortly on March 26 2017. Recently, several influential figures have been vying to secure nominations in order to…
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In an ongoing polemic against the Catholic Church, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently issued an executive order to strengthen the implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law. The RPRH was a…
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