2023

SDGs: time to get back on course

Realising goals will require both global financial reform and the opening of civic space

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

‘All critical voices are repressed under the pretext of combating disinformation’

Paraguay: the change that wasn’t

Anti-rights outsider rises while long-time ruling party prevails yet again

UN resolution on climate change: ‘The climate crisis is a human rights crisis’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Uzbekistan: a president for life?

Constitutional referendum allows president to stay put until 2040 while paying lip service to human rights

‘Being a human rights lawyer has had a huge personal cost’

‘Judicial harassment and criminal prosecution have wearing effects’

CENTRAL AMERICA

Press freedom under attack

Journalists risk harassment, detention, violence and death just for doing their job

Fiji: deeper democracy or continuing danger?

New government takes positive steps to respect rights but needs to go further

The Netherlands: climate action faces backlash

Climate protesters criminalised as anti-environmental politics rises

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT