Kyrgyzstan

International courts must respect international law, also in dire times. The International Criminal Court’s denial of immunity to heads of third States does not.

Such measures not only gut civil society as incubators of citizen involvement and connection with government, they spill beyond borders.

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.

In the face of global attacks on democracy, its defenders, led by democratic governments, should work together to map existing initiatives and assess what groups are left uncovered…

The latest sign of backsliding is a draft "foreign agents" law modeled after one that gutted civil society in Russia.

Russia and China notwithstanding, serious ties should balance interests in regional cooperation, civil society, and security assistance.

Effects of internal corruption and opaque institutions spill beyond borders, even to the war in Ukraine. Cases show the risks and the hope.

The annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer focuses attention on an increasingly frequent tool of autocrats: targeting their opponents' lawyers.

Voters in Kyrgyzstan approved a referendum on April 11 that expands the president’s powers and threatens the most vibrant civil society in the region.

WFP wins the Nobel Peace Prize; new PM appointed in Mali; conflict continues in Nagorno-Karabakh; and countries split on China's human rights record.

Nationality-based restrictions will separate families and are the wrong tool to promote public safety and national security.

With its traditional over-emphasis on security-heavy responses to threats, experts didn't expect the region to be so receptive to "whole-of-society" approaches to counter violent…