Leo Varadkar served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2022 to 2024. He previously ...

Rufus Gifford served as the US Ambassador to Denmark from 2013 to 2017 and later as Chief of Protocol of the United States ...

For a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, the claim by Indonesia’s former Vice President Jusuf Kalla, responding to revelations of mass detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang in 2018, ...

The rise of far-right politicians to power has considerably increased over the past few years across most developed democracies. In Europe, for example, the prominence of Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

Kate Bigley Kate Bigley is a senior editor for the HIR and is studying linguistics and government. She is interested in international law, AI policy, and human rights.

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