Azerbaijan’s capital Baku is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 this week. The days previous to the event the lights were projected not towards the artists but towards the country’s human rights violations record. What do we really know about the Republic of Azerbaijan?
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African democracy has been in a tight spot in the past few weeks. Together with Niger, Mauritania and Guinea, the recent uprisings in Mali and Guinea-Bissau now form a long history of coup d’états in the West African Region. Each take-over arose from particular/different dilemmas caused by domestic complexities, but at the same time, there are common threats. We’ll take a look at some of the recent cases that have occurred since the start of this millennium.
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Although sporadic violence has erupted particularly in the north of Nigeria after the presidential elections on April 16, the democratic process in this African country seems to continue without greater upholds. United Explanations has taken a deeper look as to why this is so.
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The current wave of democratic revolutions in the Arab world has evidenced the rising power of new social networks. Facebook and other Internet networks had a crucial role in the downfall of the dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia, which found themselves unprepared from the “dangers” of new technologies.
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