IN FOCUS

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

Greece: humanitarian action under attack

Government is repressing the rights of migrants and refugees – and the civil society that defends them

Rising repression in the UK

Crackdowns on protest rights and vilification of asylum-seekers alarming signs of a longstanding democracy’s authoritarian creep

Bahrain: a botched whitewashing attempt

Hosting of Inter-Parliamentary Union summit inadvertently throws the spotlight on denial of democracy and human rights

‘Rather than a real security policy, what the government has is an electoral strategy’

CENTRAL AMERICA

Moldova: a crisis of Russia’s making

Energy crunch and pro-Russia protests pose biggest post-independence test for democracy

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘There are attempts to replace the pro-European government with a pro-Kremlin puppet regime’