FairSquare has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging it to publicly call on the French authorities to overturn a ban on its athletes wearing the hijab and to impose sanctions on the hosts of the Paris 2024 Olympics if they fail to do so.
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When soft power is spent: Gaza, Ukraine, and Europeans’ standing in the Arab world
In an article published by the European Council on Foreign Relations, FairSquare director James Lynch argues that European policies on Gaza have caused possibly irreversible damage to their soft power in the Arab world.
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FairSquare today released a briefing paper examining how the UAE has used its oil and gas revenues to finance an interventionist and ruinous foreign policy, most notably in the Middle East and North Africa.
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