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Ukraine’s Parliament Is Pulling Back on LGBTQ Rights as Courts and Citizens Move Forward

Ukraine’s Supreme Court recognized a same-sex family, but parliament is moving to block legal recognition for LGBTQ+ couples.
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International Crimes and Human Rights Violations Against Muslims in BJP-Ruled Indian States Require Urgent Action

The international community must redouble efforts to press Indian authorities for accountability in growing violence and rights abuses against Muslims.
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Public-Safety Reform and Preventing Targeted Violence: Two Sides of the Same Public-Health Coin

A call to breakdown silos by jointly addressing targeted violence and other public-safety issues for comprehensive, lasting solutions.
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How the KKK Produced the Department of Justice

The Department of Justice was founded specifically to counter domestic terrorism. A new law to better prosecute today’s domestic terrorists and more effectively deter people…
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In Viral Video Cases, Does Hate Make the Crime?

Within the context of a law enforcement investigation, if a defendant’s contemporaneous hate speech is the cart, then a suspected crime is the horse. You need both to make a…
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Facebook Beware: The “Rest of World” is Hitting Back

A constitutional petition in Kenya asks its High Court to order Facebook to change its algorithm to demote inciteful, hateful and dangerous content.

Coming Soon to a Fascist Get-Together Near You

Far-right provocateurs in the United States illustrate the most dramatic global antisemitic upsurge since World War II.
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Beyond a “Hate Crime”: “Replacement” Rhetoric and the Genocide Worry

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, former President of the International Criminal Court, analyzes "replacement theory"-motivated killings through lens of international law on genocide.

American Tragedies

Buffalo, Uvalde, Laguna Woods among US communities shattered by mass shootings.
People march during a Stop Asian Hate rally in downtown Detroit, Michigan on March 27,2021, as part of a nation wide protest in solidarity against hate crimes directed towards Asian Americans in the wake of the Atlanta, Georgia spa shootings that left eight dead. They carry signs reading, “All of us vs. racism #StopAsianHate” and “Stop AAPI Hate.”

Combating Anti-Asian Violence through UN Human Rights Mechanisms

The prospect of complaints against States parties should spur more effective responses to anti-Asian attacks and other structural racial discrimination.

Election in India’s Largest State Accelerates Anti-Muslim Hate Speech and Violence

Militant Hindu nationalists from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party are fueling their campaigns with a conspiracy theory.
Captain Jay Baker, of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, speaks at a press conference on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lack of Officials’ Cultural Competency Will Hamper Hate Crimes Laws

"Given the ways in which anti-Asian stereotypes, stigmatizing rhetoric, and caricatures have been culturally tolerated, there is much more that needs to be done to increase cultural…
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