My column this week: Peru is heading towards a dangerous new populism https://t.co/m3cMa5pb7z — Michael Reid (@michaelreid52) July 23, 2020 In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories From the Long… Read more »
China has employed high-tech surveillance tools and thousands of law enforcement officers to lock down the restive Xinjiang province in a bid to halt the largest outbreak of Covid-19 since… Read more »
Bello – The return of rigged elections in Latin America https://t.co/4yXJS4TPMY — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 30, 2020 Latin America is facing a ‘decline of democracy’ under the Covid pandemic,… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
A new call for UK to do more to stand up for democracy around around the world. More should be done by all democracies in solidarity with those fighting… Read more »
The emergence of an AI-powered authoritarian bloc led by China could warp the geopolitics of this century—preventing billions of people in the world from ever securing any measure of political… Read more »
SDI named “Best CSO of the Year” in Sierra Leone” Posted by Society for Democratic Initiatives, Sierra Leone – SDI on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Governments are using the… Read more »
Fetishizing the labels we give to acts of horror skews our responses to other atrocities, says a prominent expert. In recent days the horrendous treatment of the Uighur community by… Read more »
At a time when the world’s democracies are on a back foot against a pandemic and creeping authoritarianism, a new study finds hope in Latin America. The reason is a… Read more »
🇿🇼 #COVID19 should not be used to clamp down on fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression & right to peaceful assembly. We remind #Zimbabwe that any lockdown measures &… Read more »