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November 6, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Women from the Northern Triangle: Escaping Violence? [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Wilson Center Global Fellow Guadalupe Correa explains the risks that women and girls from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala face as migrants on the journey north, including from gang violence and human trafficking, in the latest episode of the Accessing Justice podcast.


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Feminism in Russia: From Soviet Samizdat to Online Activism Elections in the Time of COVID-19: Brazilian Edition
“The women’s rights network and the human rights network in Russia are pretty separated,” says Valerie Sperling, professor at Clark University, as human rights organizations view “women’s rights [as] being more social rights, sort of outside of the sphere of human rights.” “Democracy is not made only of votes, it’s also made of exchanging reasons, of public debate […] and of course, misinformation and disinformation campaigns do affect the quality of the public debate so they do harm to democracy,” says Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, President of the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil.


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The Korean Peninsula After the U.S. Election The Global Digital Divide: Past, Present, and Future
“It’s very difficult to predict how North Korea will behave because not only is it going to be dependent on who is going to be in the White House, but it is also going to depend on how comfortable they feel in emerging from their self-imposed isolation,” says Jean H. Lee, Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. “All innovation and technology that we use to bridge the digital divide needs to be affordable and accessible,” says Zena Kebede, Technical Program Manager at the Microsoft Airband Initiative.


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Remembering the Gulag: Who Will Write Its History?
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Minority Motion to Recommit Targeted by Some Democrats (The Hill) [[link removed]]
“Whichever party is in the majority and minority should be able to determine how serious it wants to be taken by the bills it brings and the motions to recommit it offers. Party discipline and common sense should be the determining factors in how members vote on such measures,” writes Don Wolfensberger.
A Divided U.S. Is a ‘Sign Of Weakness’ to Rivals Like China (CNBC) [[link removed]]
Roberty Daly argues that internal U.S. divisions “are a sign of weakness, and calls America’s democratic institutions into question…and this for China, for Russia, for Iran is viewed as a point won, especially in the soft power or ideological realm.”
A 'Perception Hack': When Public Reaction Exceeds The Actual Hack (NPR) [[link removed]]
Nina Jankowicz tells NPR that "Since our cyber defenses have been raised over the past couple of years, we see Russia rattling the handle to our cyber door […] This spreads fear and uncertainty within the American election system. I think this benefits Russia even if they don't gain access to any sensitive voter information on the other side of that door."


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