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Australia: still silencing the climate alarm

Government says it takes the climate crisis seriously but instead restricts the right to peaceful protest

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

OCEANIA

20.Jan.2023

Global Biodiversity Framework: from words to action?

Major agreement to reverse ecosystem destruction now needs to be funded and implemented

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

GLOBAL

13.Jan.2023

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Afghanistan: theocracy pushes women to the margins

Islamic Emirate proclaimed in 2021 comes to fruition by completing the exclusion of women from work and education

INCLUSION

SOUTH ASIA

12.Jan.2023

Fiji’s new government: a less repressive trajectory?

A rare change of government offers a renewed test for democracy

DEMOCRACY

OCEANIA

05.Jan.2023

Barbados: third time’s a trend

Third state in Commonwealth Caribbean to decriminalise same-sex relations in 2022

INCLUSION

CARIBBEAN

20.Dec.2022

Tanzania: an encouraging step forward for girls’ rights

African Union body orders government to lift ban on pregnant students, safeguarding education and reproductive rights

INCLUSION

EAST AFRICA

19.Dec.2022

Civil society caught in the crossfire of Mali’s row with France

Military junta bans organisations that receive French funding as it moves ever closer to Russia

China: pandemic protests force a rare retreat

Authoritarian state gives into protest pressure by dropping its ‘zero covid’ policy

FREEDOMS

EAST ASIA

09.Dec.2022

Tunisia: dismantling democracy, one step at a time

Upcoming parliamentary election will be held under new rules designed to allow the president to continue to accumulate power

A ‘New Kazakhstan’, or more of the same?

President positions as a reformer – but his latest implausible landslide election win is straight out of the old playbook

DEMOCRACY

CENTRAL ASIA

02.Dec.2022