by Jiaqui Jiang | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
In June 2021, Argentina passed a new bill setting a 1% quota for transgender people working in the public sector. As a late-comer democracy, Argentina was the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, and has been even more successful than the...
by Makayle K | Apr 4, 2022 | Rollins College
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis assumed office in early 2019 and has quickly come to dominant both state and national level politics. From his harsh resistance to COVID-19 restrictions to his blatant discrimination against minority communities, DeSantis has grown a...
by Spencer Toohill | Oct 12, 2021 | University of Georgia
Since taking office in 2017, president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has demonstrated a pattern of heavy-handedness, authoritarianism, and privilege that contradicts his carefully crafted global image of a “debonair and progressive African leader.” The latest controversy...
by Emma DeGrandi | Mar 11, 2021 | Northeastern University
Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán has passed a series of measures effectively curtailing the civil liberties of the country’s LGBTQ+ citizens. A well-established populist, Orbán seeks to reshape the state into one that upholds Christian values with...
by Logan Bates | Oct 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
For the last sixty or so years, Cuba has been portrayed worldwide as an autocratic regime that regularly restricts the movement, speech, and overall rights of its citizens. So why is it in Cuba, an anti-democratic country with an awful human rights records, LGBTQ+...
