IN FOCUS

‘They put a black hood over my face and took me to the airport’

Commonwealth Africa: LGBTQI+ rights under attack

Anti-rights reaction in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda seeks to erase LGBTQI+ people

‘We have concerns about state functions being used to dictate and define morality’

‘We dream of hundreds of thousands demonstrating for democracy, equality and human rights’

Israel: assault on judicial independence the tip of the iceberg

Protest movement rises – but needs to acknowledge the full reality of repression

The plastic crisis: a race against the clock

Negotiations on a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution need to listen to civil society rather than the plastics industry

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

UN PLASTICS TREATY: ‘Human health and the environment must come first’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

France: pensions deadlock puts democracy under strain

Security force violence raises renewed questions about impunity

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The criminalisation of solidarity has had a chilling effect’

Cuba: elections without choices

Authoritarian regime seeks legitimacy in an election ritual without any substance