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October 9, 2024

Human Rights
Thailand's Chance to Send the Right Signal

The world is sleepwalking through Thailand’s growing denial of fundamental human rights, like freedom of expression. The country’s rights violations are aimed at shielding its centuries-old monarchy …

Move Forward Party supporters, mostly donning orange and holding up protest signs, react after Thailand's Constitutional Court delivers its verdict on a case seeking the dissolution of the party over its call for lese-majeste reform, in Bangkok, Thailand on August 7, 2024.

July 4, 2024

United States
TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2024

This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton Universi…

Podcast A set of books recommended for The World Next Week's summer reading special episode.

October 12, 2010

Sudan
A Trip Report: Sudan

Upon their return from Sudan, George Clooney and John Prendergast assess the in-country situation in advance of southern Sudan's independence referendum this January.

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October 12, 2010

Sudan
A Trip Report: Sudan

Upon their return from Sudan, please join George Clooney and John Prendergast to assess the in-country situation in advance of southern Sudan's independence referendum this January.

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March 13, 2012

Sudan
A Trip Report: Sudan

Upon their return from South Sudan with the Enough Project, please join George Clooney, John Prendergast, and special guests to assess the in-country situation in the year since southern Sudan's inde…

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August 6, 2021

Global
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Actual World Events

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films inspired by reality. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: Charlie Wilson's War (a man, woman, and another man in sunglasses look out); Breaker Morant (three men in military uniforms stand over scenes of combat); Invictus (a man in a green and yellow rugby uniform looks triumphant in front of a crowd with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela behind him).