2023

‘People are beginning to realise that we need real and systemic change’

Sieger Sloot | THE NETHERLANDS

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

UN PLASTICS TREATY: ‘It is up to civil society to speak up for the public when their governments won’t’

Aidan Charron | GLOBAL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘They put a black hood over my face and took me to the airport’

Syed Fawad Ali Shah | PAKISTAN

‘We have concerns about state functions being used to dictate and define morality’

Ivy Werimba | KENYA

‘We dream of hundreds of thousands demonstrating for democracy, equality and human rights’

Debbie Gild-Hayo | ISRAEL

UN PLASTICS TREATY: ‘Human health and the environment must come first’

Vito Buonsante | GLOBAL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The criminalisation of solidarity has had a chilling effect’

Melina Spathari | GREECE

‘Rather than a real security policy, what the government has is an electoral strategy’

César Artiga | EL SALVADOR

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘There are attempts to replace the pro-European government with a pro-Kremlin puppet regime’

Victoria Nemerenco | MOLDOVA

‘There is a pro-democracy civil society that opposes the war and advocates for democratic reforms’

Anastasiya Vasilchuk | BELARUS