2023

The plastic crisis: a race against the clock

Negotiations on a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution need to listen to civil society rather than the plastics industry

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

UN PLASTICS TREATY: ‘Human health and the environment must come first’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

France: pensions deadlock puts democracy under strain

Security force violence raises renewed questions about impunity

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The criminalisation of solidarity has had a chilling effect’

Cuba: elections without choices

Authoritarian regime seeks legitimacy in an election ritual without any substance

Russia’s boots on the ground in Africa

Wagner Group is spreading Russian influence – and extracting vital resources – in country after country

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Greece: humanitarian action under attack

Government is repressing the rights of migrants and refugees – and the civil society that defends them

Rising repression in the UK

Crackdowns on protest rights and vilification of asylum-seekers alarming signs of a longstanding democracy’s authoritarian creep

Bahrain: a botched whitewashing attempt

Hosting of Inter-Parliamentary Union summit inadvertently throws the spotlight on denial of democracy and human rights

‘Rather than a real security policy, what the government has is an electoral strategy’

CENTRAL AMERICA