The European Union (EU) has raised concerns over growing reports of election-related violence, hate speech and political ...

Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá told the Berlin Freedom Conference on Tuesday that Cuba's government is "a ...

Harsh sentences meted out last week to democracy activist Joshua Wong in Hong Kong and to former lawmaker Au Kam San in Macau mark an escalation in the use of ...

The Chairman of the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) Annual Conference Planning Committee, Sir Ejike Ezenwa, SAN, has called on lawyers to take ...

Washington is likely to continue prioritising deals over democratic accountability, with dire consequences for the region’s ...

Selahattin Demirtaş lit up the Turkish left in 2014, but was imprisoned for ‘terrorist propaganda’. His freedom would mark a new political era, says Kaya Genç, a novelist and essayist from Istanbul ...

By enabling free association and assembly, robust civic and political spaces prevent authorities from backsliding or from ...

There is a systematic effort to silence critics and human rights activists through cross-border repression and gaps in ...

The EU raises alarm over political violence, hate speech and voter intimidation ahead of Nigeria's 2027 elections.

Cambodian civil society groups and trade unions have called on France, Canada and other Francophonie member states to press ...