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CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA

UN Human Rights Council: new members and old problems

Saudi Arabia is kept out, but non-competitive elections allow other repressive states in

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UN Cybercrime Convention: a troubling new treaty

Lack of adequate human rights safeguards means convention could be weaponised against dissent

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UN Summit of the Future: too much at stake to waste

The Pact for the Future could still matter – if civil society were listened to

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Protecting civic space critical to SDGs success

UN process must open up to civil society

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Human rights take a backseat in AI regulation

Civil society urges EU to close loopholes and enhance safeguards

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Russia kept out of UN Human Rights Council

But non-competitive elections see rights abusers remain in the majority

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UN General Assembly: PR and platitudes

Sustainable Development Goals summit brings no breakthrough

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G20 summit: international ritual lacking in substance

Host government India uses meeting as pre-election PR exercise

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BRICS: the burgeoning of an international repressive alliance?

New members largely a gallery of authoritarian states

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UN Cybercrime Convention: could the cure be worse than the disease?

Treaty under negotiation could give repressive states further tools to stifle dissent

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