IN FOCUS

‘This election is make-believe: its only role is to provide a veneer of democracy’

Spain: a victory in the struggle against sexual violence

The country’s first law on sexual consent comes after years of feminist demands for a new approach to gender-based violence

‘Communities have the right to have their opinions heard and considered’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Many women escape North Korea to experience the freedoms they are denied’

Brazil: danger averted

Transition process underway following narrow defeat of far-right incumbent by broad coalition under leftist leadership

‘We shouldn’t even be discussing why civil society needs to have a seat in climate talks’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Civil society’s participation in COP27 is important because it represents the voices of communities’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Lebanon: people take on the banks

Driven to desperation by government failure, depositors resort to extreme measures to recover their money

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘We doubt that we will be able to mobilise as we did around COP26’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Civil society must get involved because political actors cannot find a solution to our problems’

CONFLICT | CRISIS