FREEDOMS

CIVIL AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS

Kenya: systemic violence meets brave resistance

Youth-led protest movement demands end to police brutality

The silencing of Hong Kong

Five years of extraordinary repression have curbed a once vibrant democracy movement

El Salvador: Bukele’s authoritarianism goes global

A mega-prison deal with Trump marks the export of civic space erosion and democratic dismantling

CENTRAL AMERICA

Facial recognition: the latest weapon against civil society

From China to the UK, governments are weaponising the surveillance technology to repress dissent

Tunisia’s demolished democracy: presidential crackdown intensifies

Mass trial delivers decades-long sentences

NORTHERN AFRICA

Weaponised surveillance: how spyware targets civil society

Governments’ unchecked use of monitoring technology threatens activists and journalists

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

Brave mothers of the missing help expose a national tragedy

Nicaragua: a dynasty in the making

Constitutional overhaul formalises family rule but international pressure mounts

CENTRAL AMERICA

Kenya’s shadow war on activism

Over 80 Gen Z protesters targeted in state-sponsored abduction campaign

Zimbabwe: latest victory in the global struggle to end the death penalty

Research-driven advocacy and international solidarity key for reform

SOUTHERN AFRICA