2026

PHILIPPINES: ‘Responding to disinformation can’t mean giving the government a mandate to police truth’

Josalee Deinla | PHILIPPINES

COSTA RICA: ‘The defence of democracy must be a common cause’

Raúl Silesky | COSTA RICA

CENTRAL AMERICA

LIECHTENSTEIN: ‘We have one of the strictest abortion bans in Europe’

Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel | LIECHTENSTEIN

SWEDEN: ‘The new migration laws are so vague that people don’t know what might be used against them’

John Stauffer | SWEDEN

GUINEA-BISSAU: ‘It’s not enough to ask citizens to say yes or no: public debate must be guaranteed’

Bubacar Turé | GUINEA-BISSAU

TUNISIA: ‘People are taking to the streets because promises of social justice remain unfulfilled’

FTDES | TUNISIA

NORTHERN AFRICA

ECUADOR: ‘Criminalisation serves as a deterrent, seeking to discipline others’

Gabriela Panchana | ECUADOR

SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Classifying gender-based violence as a national disaster was never the finish line, it was the starting point’

Sabrina Walter | SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

VENEZUELA: ‘We started clearing the rubble with our bare hands because we knew the state wasn’t coming’

anonymous | VENEZUELA

CONFLICT | CRISIS

EUROPE: ‘Repressive approaches to migration do nothing to address why people move in the first place’

Chiara Catelli | BELGIUM