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UN Special Rapporteur’s Final Message on North Korea Urges Respect for Human Rights and Calls for Humanitarian Aid
March 31, 2022 | Robert R. King The UN special rapporteur on North Korea’s final report calls for sustained engagement with North Korea on human rights issues and for humanitarian aid to the North Korean people.

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China May Move beyond Zero-Covid. That Could Benefit Us All.
February 9, 2022 | J. Stephen Morrison, Scott Kennedy China will inevitably move beyond its Zero-Covid approach. How orderly will this transition to a new long-term strategy be? At what price will it occur? And will it involve new partnerships with the external world?

Critical Questions
China Is Exploiting the Pandemic to Advance Its Interests, with Mixed Results
September 30, 2021 | Bonny Lin, Matthew P. Funaiole , Brian Hart, Hannah Price Drawing from thousands of data points, the China Power Project developed a Chinese Covid-19 Diplomacy Index to score countries based on PRC engagement and regional responses to PRC activities. The index and study show mixed success for China’s public health diplomacy.

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Navigating Collapse in Lebanon’s Covid-19 Response
April 13, 2021 | Will Todman Lebanon is fighting Covid-19 while reeling from economic, political, and security crises. The United States should support multilateral efforts to strengthen Lebanon’s vaccine rollout in order to save lives and prevent further deterioration in a country on the verge of...

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Rethinking Migration Is a Security Imperative—Just Not How You Might Think
February 23, 2021 | Erol Yayboke

Rethinking and reshaping global migration systems post-pandemic through a human security lens could be the difference between economic rebound and stagnation. Not doing so could also have grave strategic consequences.

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Can I Stay or Can I Go Now? Longer-term Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Migration
April 20, 2020 | Erol Yayboke Covid-19-related disruptions to global migration are unprecedented. As remittances correspondingly decrease, these disruptions could have long-term impacts on migration flows and thus on economic growth, global inequality, and on the well-being of migrants themselves.

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Public Surveillance to Keep Us Healthy and Protect Our Privacy
April 16, 2020 | Glenn S. Gerstell

The Covid-19 pandemic has focused attention on the potential conflict between public health monitoring and technology-fueled surveillance. Glenn Gerstell examines the issues to be considered as the fight to stop the spread of the virus continues.

Commentary
Seeking a Path to Europe, Refugees and Migrants Ultimately Turned Back by Covid-19
April 2, 2020 | Erol Yayboke, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. Confrontations between Greek forces and thousands trying to enter Europe erupted after Turkey opened its side of the border to refugees. Temporary resolution came only as fears of the spread of Covid-19 forced the refugees to return to other parts of Turkey.

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Five Ways COVID-19 Is Changing Global Migration
March 25, 2020 | Erol Yayboke COVID-19 has caused unprecedented mobility restrictions. Whether by creating longer-term economic stress, greater inequality, more vulnerability to forced migrants, and increases in irregular migration, it could also be fundamentally changing the face of global migration.

Critical Questions
The Impact of COVID-19 on Humanitarian Crises
March 19, 2020 | Jacob Kurtzer In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSIS’s Jacob Kurtzer discusses the potentially devastating impacts of the virus on displaced communities and lessons governments can learn from the humanitarian community to address challenges on the horizon.

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