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CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA

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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UN Security Council: new members but little change

Authoritarian Belarus loses bid to join – but structural reform remains much needed

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SDGs: time to get back on course

Realising goals will require both global financial reform and the opening of civic space

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Transnational justice: impunity under challenge

International trials offer hope to victims and survivors of atrocities in Liberia and the Central African Republic

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NATO’s growing pains

Russian invasion of Ukraine pushes some states into NATO’s arms – but makes NATO membership a contentious issue in others

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UN Human Rights Council takes action on Russia

Unprecedented move followed by rights-abusing states winning Council seats through non-competitive elections

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