CIVICUS discusses protests and the prospects for a democratic transition in Venezuela with Andrés Cañizález, director-general of Medianálisis, a civil society organisation (CSO) dedicated to ...

Supercharged by advances in AI, states are increasingly using facial recognition technology to police dissent. Authoritarian states have pioneered the use of this technology, but more democratic ...

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 ...

Autonomous weapons systems are making life-or-death decisions in conflicts without human intervention. These algorithmic systems select and engage targets through pattern recognition, raising serious ...

Mexico is home to a catastrophic human rights crisis of enforced disappearances, highlighted by the discovery of an industrial-scale extermination camp in Jalisco state. With over 121,000 documented ...

Donald Trump’s second administration has orchestrated a comprehensive assault on democratic institutions. Executive power has been dramatically expanded through the Department of Government Efficiency ...

International Women’s Day 2026 was marked by protests across the world, uniting a feminist response to interlocking assaults on women’s lives: rising femicide and sexual violence, the systematic ...

CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in Delhi. In May, India’s Chief Justice, Surya Kant, ...

CIVICUS discusses the persecution of Uyghurs and activism in exile with Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and chair of the Executive ...

All 12 people currently on death row in Bahrain were arrested for political reasons. Evidence against all of them was extracted under torture and through coerced confessions. The death penalty is ...

Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority in Hungary’s 12 April parliamentary election, ending 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule. For the European Union, Hungary’s role as the bloc’s ...

COP30 in Belém, Brazil was another climate summit that fell short, with petrostates blocking meaningful commitments to phase out fossil fuels. Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbered most ...