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Senior research associate Emile Dirks has been elected to serve as a member of PEN Canada’s board of directors.
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view on national security.
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about a new law in China that threatens cross-border legal consequences.
Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by […]
Citizen Lab senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about a report he co-authored on transnational repression in the EU. The authors found that European nations respond more weakly to transnational repression from China than repression by other countries. Dirks notes that this is likely due to closer economic […]