The most significant change was the explicit ban on the participation of the political opposition. The government had already expelled, imprisoned and persecuted its opponents, but it has now ...

The United Nations Security Council faces a deepening crisis of effectiveness and legitimacy. Designed in 1945, its anachronistic structure, centred around five permanent members with veto powers, is ...

CIVICUS discusses the criminalisation of LGBTQI+ people in Peru with Lucía Santos, a lawyer and president of Proyecta Igualdad, a feminist organisation that works to overcome gender inequality. Five ...

CIVICUS discusses artivism, resistance and the politics of representation with Mina Jawad, a Berlin-based artist, theatre-maker and writer who works with Afghan artists in the diaspora and in ...

CIVICUS discusses Nepal’s recent disaster and civil society’s push for climate justice with Prajwol Bickram Rana, Asian Front Convenor at World’s Youth for Climate Justice, a global campaign that ...

‘The election felt like a formality because it took place in a context hostile for dissent, pluralism and rights’ DEMOCRACY MIDDLE EAST 02.Jan.2026 EN 1 20 21 22 ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has declared he’ll hold no more elections, abandoning any pretence of democratic legitimacy. The announcement came days after the government stripped around 2,000 ...

CIVICUS discusses recent anti-corruption protests in Albania with Gresa Hasa, a doctoral researcher at the University of Graz and co-founder of the feminist magazine Shota. In January, mass protests ...

CIVICUS discusses the 2025 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit with Francesca Grandi, Head of Defence and Security at Transparency International, a global civil society organisation that ...

As authoritarianism expands, more activists are being forced into exile, but repression is following them. Repressive states are reaching across borders to silence critics who’ve fled. Tactics ...

Steward Muhindo is an activist with LUCHA (Lutte pour le changement), a non-violent, non-partisan civic movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He spoke to CIVICUS about the conflict ...

It’s been two decades since the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC), came into force. Since then, the ICC has prosecuted numerous cases against perpetrators of gross ...