By Lysa John, Secretary General of CIVICUS
The year 2024 is a bumper election year. Women voters will have a huge say in how global democracy fares. In India, all eyes are on the national elections which will be held in the first half of the year. Three other major democracies, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, join India as the big ones deciding their fates this year. Asian neighbours Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan concluded elections earlier this year, but with serious questions looming big on both processes and results. The outcomes have raised fundamental questions on the progress of human rights and civic freedoms.
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