Africans everywhere should show interest in the outcome of the African Union’s elections for its human rights institutions.
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Nigeria has made some progress on voting rights for citizens with disabilities. But gaps persist.
Many of the issues disabled people encounter in society will result from political decision making.
Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. More than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
As trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales, hunt saboteurs and police officers discuss their ‘unlikely alliance’ in monitoring fox hunts.
The countries, whose respective leaders recently won widely disputed elections, offer contrasting examples in how autocracies operate, evolve and change.
Should all points of view be heard from? Defending certain values and ideas makes it a bit more complicated than simply listening to all sides.
The drivers of the improvement are largely outside the government’s control. Meanwhile, total debt is projected to exceed $1 trillion for the first time by mid-2027.
José Antonio Kast, who has run for the presidency several times, successfully seized on widespread dissatisfaction over issues like crime and immigration.
It became clear that “Team Dutton” was running on little more than bloke-energy, an unaffordable nuclear policy and, crazily, higher taxes.
Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been political or personal in nature.
Whistleblowers’ stories show how accountability is shifting from formal legal institutions to solidarity networks built outside the state.
Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
Aliança Catalana is pro-independence, anti-immigration – and a major threat to Pedro Sánchez’ fragile coalition.
With so many influential people in the room, the hope was to see a tipping point in the engagement of political, faith, business and cultural leaders.
NAFTA and the decline of American community have created a new path for mayors of small and midsized cities to reach national office.
Political trust and support for the rule of law are important for sustaining stability in democracies.
Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.
Experts explain the tension between stability and politicisation in climate governance.
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