2026

DEMOCRACY: ‘We now have a playbook to stop authoritarians, and it starts with listening to people and their needs’

Pedro Telles | BRAZIL

HUNGARY: ‘We expect the era of rights-stripping policies to end, in law and institutional practice’

Budapest Pride | HUNGARY

SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Xenophobia has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for elites who have failed’

Ashley Green-Thompson | SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

GREECE: ‘Children need better protection online, not to be removed from social media’

Child Rights International Network | GREECE

GHANA: ‘This is bigger than LGBTQI+ rights – it’s about the kind of society we want to be’

Leila Lariba | GHANA

CIVIL SOCIETY: ‘Volunteering is no longer seen as a civic duty but as a form of civic dissent’

Nichole Cirillo | UNITED STATES

WORLD CUP: ‘FIFA has placed itself on the side of the polluters, not the rest of the planet’

Frank Huisingh | THE NETHERLANDS

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

ACCESS TO INFORMATION: ‘Restrictions are turning librarians into activists in a way they may not be prepared for’

Claire McGuire | THE NETHERLANDS

BANGLADESH: ‘The deeper change is that people are no longer silent’

anonymous | BANGLADESH

SENEGAL: ‘The new law criminalises not only LGBTQI+ people but also anyone offering support’

anonymous | SENEGAL