IN BRIEF

Civil society overcomes colonial legacy: LGBTQI+ rights breakthrough in St Lucia

Latest Caribbean victory proves advances can still come amid regression

INCLUSION

CARIBBEAN

05.Aug.2025

A backward step: Trinidad and Tobago recriminalises LGBTQI+ lives

Bucking the regional trend, court ruling reinstates colonial-era laws

INCLUSION

CARIBBEAN

07.Apr.2025

Eswatini: jailing of politicians the latest act of repression

Africa’s last absolute monarchy continues to deny demands for democracy

FREEDOMS

SOUTHERN AFRICA

24.Jul.2024

Zimbabwe: rights under further attack ahead of 2023 elections

President Mnangagwa seeking to prolong his stay in power by cracking down on dissent

FREEDOMS

SOUTHERN AFRICA

25.Oct.2022

Guinea’s military in no hurry to return to the barracks

Junta bans protests following announcement of long transition period

South Africa: the deadly impacts of climate change

Civil society responds to huge floods that left hundreds dead and thousands homeless

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

SOUTHERN AFRICA

24.May.2022

Pandemic treaty: will the world be ready for the next crisis?

Civil society perspectives needed to shape treaty to improve pandemic performance

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

GLOBAL

23.May.2022

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Civil society campaigning achieves forced labour victory in Uzbekistan

Seventeen years of advocacy and activism leads to the end of state-imposed forced and child labour in country’s cotton industry

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL ASIA

06.May.2022

Fresh hope for civil society: right-wing populist defeated in Slovenia

Victory of new party raises hope that civic freedoms will be respected

DEMOCRACY

EUROPE

04.May.2022

Belarus: ceremonial referendum confirms Putin’s power

Constitutional changes open the door to Russia’s nuclear missiles

DEMOCRACY

EUROPE

03.Mar.2022