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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
Democracy
Democracy
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A woman walks past a banner pasted by members of a collective against violence towards women in support of the Uighur population on a wall of China's Embassy in Paris on July 30, 2020.
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The 2020 US Capitol Christmas Tree on December 2, 2020
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French President Emmanuel Macron
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A Chinese military honor guard marches off after greeting Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachith (not seen) on his arrival at Beijing airport to attend the Belt and Road Forum, on April 25, 2019 (GREG BAKER/GETTY IMAGES)
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Sakie and Shigeru Yokota, parents of North Korean kidnapping victim Megumi Yokota, speak in Niigata, Japan, September 2014.
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December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years.
Experts
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
