2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ethiopia (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the U.S. Department of State)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2022, the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, ending active hostilities between them, which held throughout the year, although reports of abuses by Eritrean troops along the border and by militia groups persisted. In March the U.S. Secretary of State “determined that members of …

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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State)

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, also known as the Human Rights Reports, cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Report – cover internationally recognized …

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China’s Alternative Order and What America Should Learn from It (Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs)

By now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international bodies. He wants to knock the U.S. dollar off its pedestal and eliminate Washington’s chokehold over critical technology. In his new multipolar order, global …

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Metaphilosophy (Nicholas Joll)

What is philosophy? What is philosophy for? How should philosophy be done? These are metaphilosophical questions, metaphilosophy being the study of the nature of philosophy. Contemporary metaphilosophies within the Western philosophical tradition can be divided, rather roughly, according to whether they are associated with (1) Analytic philosophy, (2) Pragmatist philosophy, or (3) Continental philosophy. The pioneers of the …

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Markets Vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality And Economic Prosperity (Markets vs Mandates Research Team)

On April 8, 2024, the Hoover Institution will host its second annual one-day conference on Markets vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality and Economic Prosperity. Building on Hoover’s founding principles of generating ideas that define healthy and free societies, the program will evaluate when, if, and how institutions and policies can improve environmental quality while also promoting …

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World Bank Climate Change Policies Leaving Global South Worse Off (Bjorn Lomborg)

The World Bank is passing up some of its most economically impactful opportunities to meet sustainable development goals to pursue costly, yet low-yielding, climate change projects, argues Hoover visiting fellow Bjorn Lomborg. The World Bank is passing up some of its most economically impactful opportunities to meet sustainable development goals to pursue costly, yet low-yielding, climate …

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