2026

DEMOCRACY: ‘When funding responds to what democracy defenders need, it builds real resilience’

Turkey: Erdoğan moves to bury the opposition

After Hungary showed that electoral autocrats can be voted out, Turkey’s president is trying to ensure it doesn’t happen to him

MADAGASCAR: ‘The government shouldn’t forget that it’s in power thanks to young people’

DATA GOVERNANCE: ‘Data belongs to the public; the state simply generates and manages it’

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

UN climate resolution: time to stop the persecution

Resolution endorses landmark ruling on climate obligations, but many states are still attacking climate and environmental activists

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

PERU: ‘For 20 years, voters have had to choose the lesser of two evils’

NORTH MACEDONIA: ‘A new generation of activists now exists where none existed before’

GAZA: ‘If civilians can get this close to establishing a humanitarian corridor, then governments can do it’

CONFLICT | CRISIS

USA: sanctions weaponised against human rights

Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese are back in force, and others are being targeted

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

MEXICO: ‘The protests meant the public emergence of Gen Z as a force with a voice of its own’