2024

UN Cybercrime Convention: a troubling new treaty

Lack of adequate human rights safeguards means convention could be weaponised against dissent

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Georgia’s dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ law

New legislation latest troubling development ahead of election

Zimbabwe cracks down for regional summit

Numerous activists locked away before meeting of the Southern African Development Community

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Togo: demands for democracy repressed – again

Constitutional changes go against the democratic reforms civil society urges

Algeria’s election: low enthusiasm for a foregone conclusion

No real competition allowed after years of repression

NORTHERN AFRICA

UN Summit of the Future: too much at stake to waste

The Pact for the Future could still matter – if civil society were listened to

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Hong Kong’s crackdown intensifies

Latest tools of repression include new school lessons and tougher national security law

Canada’s First Nations score victory in their quest for rights

Systemic exclusion remains to be addressed

New Zealand: Māori rights in the firing line

Right-wing government reverses hard-won Indigenous gains

Pride against prejudice: resistance is on

LGBTQI+ people insisting on visibility and building solidarity in the face of regression