2022

‘The new constitution will guarantee the president extensive powers, enabling further violations’

NORTHERN AFRICA

Uzbekistan: protests further show need for democracy

State’s failure to spot the warning signs of anger leads to rare protests and avoidable violence

Migrants pay the deadly cost of Spain’s harsh approach

Full investigation needed into multiple deaths at attempted crossing of Morocco-Spanish border

NORTHERN AFRICA

Republicanism on the rise in the Caribbean

Commonwealth Caribbean coming to terms with history to forge its own path forward

‘We must establish a republic – where the people are sovereign and not the Queen’

Pride and politics: a renewed urgency to demands for LGBTQI+ rights

2022 Pride events defy anti-rights backlash and democratic regression

Cuba: a year on from historic pro-democracy protests

Repression and criminalisation prevent anniversary protest – but deep discontent is guaranteed to resurface

‘Civilian refugees should not be used as political bargaining chips’

Tanzania: Maasai people resist forced evictions

Indigenous people face government plan to forcibly remove them for tourism development

‘Our right to be recognised and represented as an Indigenous community is being violated’