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THE 12th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) was held in Vienna on Oct 14-18,...
IT was a near miss. The ruling coalition, with an arguably fake mandate, was on the verge of destroying the Constitution by demolishing the last hope...
THERE comes a time in the life of nations when citizens start to feel that the social contract between them and the state is on the verge of collapse....
A FEW recent developments provide some examples of how the deep state systematically encroaches upon the citizens’ constitutional freedoms and...
WHAT is a core human value? It’s freedom, says Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the economist who, in his book The Road to Freedom, pleads for an...
“ALL authoritarian regimes encounter resistance to their rule in one form or another, and all respond with a mixture of repression and...
HOW to restrain a powerful, overweening and tyrannical state is the key challenge we face today. The institutions of restraint on executive excesses...
SILENCE is complicity, said the Philippines Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa in her 2022 memoir How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Our biggest...
THESE are difficult, frightening times. In the words of Martha Beck (The Way of Integrity, 2021), “A value system built on avarice, ambition, and...
IN the upcoming national elections, it seems democracy itself is at stake. The electoral process has been reduced to an “undemocratic farce”. A...
POLICE and the judiciary are among the top corrupt institutions, according to Transparency International Pakistan’s National Corruption Perceptions...