IN FOCUS

Australia’s powerful rebuke to Trump-style populism

Election result echoes Canada’s rejection of a lurch to the right

From grief to action: demands for democratic renewal across the Balkans

Mass protest movements sparked by national tragedies call for systemic change

Rights in an ageing world

Planned convention on the rights of older persons will fill a crucial gap

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Tunisia’s demolished democracy: presidential crackdown intensifies

Mass trial delivers decades-long sentences

NORTHERN AFRICA

South Sudan’s potential path to civil war

Peace agreement breached amid broken democratic promises and renewed ethnic violence

CONFLICT | CRISIS

The disappeared: Mexico’s industrial-scale human rights crisis

Brave mothers of the missing help expose a national tragedy

Hungary’s war on Pride

New law criminalises LGBTQI+ visibility

The price of protest: Greenpeace hit with huge penalty

US court case highlights global trend of corporate SLAPPs against civil society

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Turkey’s democratic uprising

Protests confront increasingly autocratic government

International Women’s Day 2025: global fightback against rights rollbacks

As anti-rights forces gain ground, feminist movements mobilise resistance