Jamal Benomar is senior advisor to the United Nations Development Programme and former director of Human Rights Programs at the Carter Center of Emory University.
The battle over rights for sexual minorities has divided countries into opposing camps. But autocrats are lashing out with one aim: countering the liberal international order.
When students and other rights activists decided to seize a tactical opening that the regime cynically offered them during the 2009 campaign, they were making a choice that was even…
