IN FOCUS

Sudan: women’s rights in the military’s firing line

Junta seeking to reverse progress made following 2019 revolution

UN: right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment recognised

Landmark resolution must now be followed by action

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Big challenges ahead for new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Volker Türk, a UN insider, takes office after opaque selection process

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Sweden’s far right rises

Party with neo-Nazi origins holds the balance of power following immigration-dominated election

Ocean Treaty: unfinished business

States need to get back to the negotiating table and commit to protect the world’s oceans

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Angola: the democratic transition that never was

Most competitive election in country’s history skewed by ruling party’s dominance

SOUTHERN AFRICA

China: UN report leaves no room to hide

New Human Rights Commissioner faces early test of holding China to account

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Iran’s women the renewed targets of theocratic repression

Government responds to growing social unrest by crushing dissent and diverting attention

Pakistan: the lethal impacts of climate change

Response to catastrophic floods hindered by political short-sightedness, state ineffectiveness and insufficient global funding

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

India: outrage as gang rapists walk free

Case exemplifies systematic denial of Indian women’s rights and multiple layers of exclusion faced by Muslim women