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INTRODUCTION In an era where the constitution, legislative reforms, judiciary restructuring, and the roll-out of constitutional courts are under review in Botswana, there is an undeniable need for massive change, solutions, redress, and most importantly, solidarity and targeted interventions in protecting the rights of survivors of violence. Women and girls undisputably continue to suffer the…

Shiler Sido was born in Afrin, in the olive-covered hills of northern Syria, where 95 percent of her neighbors were Kurdish, and a fragile experiment in pluralism briefly took root. Then came 2018, Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, and what she describes not as counter-terrorism but as demographic engineering: 18 million olive trees felled, 10,000 homes…

Israel has betrayed the very values that made the Jewish people the world’s conscience for millennia—values forged in our own persecution, meant to bind us forever to the defense of the persecuted. Instead, from the occupation of 1967 to the genocide now consuming Gaza and Israel’s inhumane crimes against the Palestinian people in the West…