2026

GLOBAL TAX TREATY: ‘Without sustained pressure from organised movements, the political space to win simply doesn’t open’

Jenny Ricks | SOUTH AFRICA

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

BOTSWANA: ‘Court rulings matter, but it’s sustained civic action that turns them into real protection’

Faith Gunda | BOTSWANA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

DEMOCRACY: ‘When funding responds to what democracy defenders need, it builds real resilience’

Lisbeth Pilegaard | DENMARK

MADAGASCAR: ‘The government shouldn’t forget that it’s in power thanks to young people’

Youth Empowerment | MADAGASCAR

DATA GOVERNANCE: ‘Data belongs to the public; the state simply generates and manages it’

Natalia Carfi | ARGENTINA

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

PERU: ‘For 20 years, voters have had to choose the lesser of two evils’

David Hidalgo | PERU

NORTH MACEDONIA: ‘A new generation of activists now exists where none existed before’

Viktor Buchkovski | NORTH MACEDONIA

GAZA: ‘If civilians can get this close to establishing a humanitarian corridor, then governments can do it’

Musa Roshdy | SPAIN

CONFLICT | CRISIS

MEXICO: ‘The protests meant the public emergence of Gen Z as a force with a voice of its own’

Rafael Amézquita Castellanos | MEXICO

TOGO: ‘A generation that had largely stayed away from public engagement has crossed a threshold’

Ahouefa Sossou | TOGO