CIVICUS discusses the results of recent Mexican elections with Daniela Arias Sánchez, Coordinator of the Election Lab of Mexico, an independent think tank dedicated to research, reflection and analysis on issues related to elections and democracy in Latin America.
Interviews
CIVICUS discusses the decriminalisation of same-sex relations in Namibia with Kevin Wessels, a young Namibian LGBTQI+ activist.
CIVICUS discusses recent protests by South African health workers with doctor and global health advocate Zolelwa Sifumba.
CIVICUS discusses recent local elections in Serbia with Tamara Branković, deputy program director at the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA).
CIVICUS speaks with Nathalie Tehio, president of the Human Rights League, about recent protests against electoral changes imposed by the French government in New Caledonia.
CIVICUS speaks with Asal Abasian about their experiences as a queer and feminist activist in Iran and in exile.
CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Pakistan with Asad Iqbal Butt, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a civil society organisation that works for the realisation of the full range of human rights for all of Pakistan’s citizens and residents.
CIVICUS discusses Thailand’s legalisation of same-sex marriage with Matcha Phornin, founder of Sangsan Anakot, an ethnic minority and Indigenous LGBTQI+ feminist organisation working to empower Indigenous women, girls and young LGBTQI+ people.
CIVICUS discusses the criminalisation of same-sex relations in Iraq with Sarah Sanbar, researcher at Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division.
CIVICUS discusses civil society’s advocacy for the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) with Brad Adams, Executive Director and founder of Climate Rights International (CRI).
CIVICUS discusses the global arms market’s role in conflict with Mathew George, director of the Arms Transfers Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
CIVICUS discusses the status of people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic with Joseph Cherubin, a Haitian doctor and founder and executive director of the Sociocultural Movement of Humanitarian and Environmental Work (MOSCTHA).
CIVICUS speaks with Ilaria Masinara, Head of the Campaigning Unit at Amnesty International Italia, about escalating threats to freedom of expression and the media in Italy.
CIVICUS speaks about civic space restrictions in Bangladesh with Iftekhar Zaman, Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), the accredited national chapter of Transparency International, a leading global anti-corruption organisation.
CIVICUS discusses the results of elections in Mexico with Anaid Alcázar, a Mexican political scientist and coordinator of the Innovation for Democracy Programme at the Avina Foundation, a global organisation that promotes change in the areas of democratic innovation, fair and regenerative economies and climate action.
CIVICUS discusses the results and implications of recent elections to the European Parliament with Philipp Jäger, Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre, an independent, non-partisan think tank focused on European policy processes and outcomes.
CIVICUS discusses recent Dominican Republic elections with Manuel María Mercedes Medina, a lawyer, human rights defender and president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH-RD).
CIVICUS discusses a recent Indian Supreme Court ruling on climate change and human rights with Arpitha Kodiveri, an environmental law and justice scholar and assistant professor of political science at Vassar College, who works on the role of law in redressing the climate harms faced by South Asian Indigenous communities.
CIVICUS discusses the conflict in Myanmar with Zoya Phan, Programme Director of the campaigning organisation Burma Campaign UK, and Programme Director of Advance Myanmar, a UK-registered charity that supports grassroots organisations and provides assistance to activists and displaced people in Myanmar.
CIVICUS discusses a recent ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) on the rights of human rights defenders with Jomary Ortegón, a human rights lawyer and vice-president of the Lawyers’ Collective José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR), a Colombian organisation dedicated to the defence and promotion of human rights.
CIVICUS discusses LGBTQI+ rights in Peru with Rodrigo Flores Castro, clinical psychologist and coordinator of the Mental Health Committee of Más Igualdad (‘More Equality’), a Peruvian intersectional feminist organisation that advocates for recognition of LGBTQI+ rights.
CIVICUS discusses democracy, civic space and media freedoms in Slovakia with Rasto Kužel, Executive Director of MEMO 98, a leading media monitoring organisation with 25 years of experience.
CIVICUS speaks about a recent court ruling upholding freedom of expression with Alviani Sabillah, researcher at the Centre of Indonesian Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), a research and advocacy institution focused on legal reform.
CIVICUS speaks with Haitian lawyer Rosy Auguste Ducéna about the situation in Haiti and the prospects for a newly deployed international mission.
CIVICUS speaks about Singapore’s recent leadership change with Kirsten Han, an independent writer, journalist and member of the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC).
CIVICUS speaks with Andreas Müller, Executive Director of Democracy International, about the European Parliament elections and his expectations for the results in Germany.
CIVICUS speaks about a recent biodiversity court victory in Italy with Francesco Maletto, wildlife and habitats lawyer at ClientEarth, an environmental civil society organisation that seeks systemic change through advocacy and litigation.
CIVICUS speaks about the challenges faced by Tunisia’s civil society as the government moves to restrict foreign funding with Larbi Sadiki, director of the Democratic Sustainability Forum (Demos-Tunisia), scholar of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and fellow of Japan’s Toda Peace Institute.
CIVICUS speaks about repression in Equatorial Guinea with civil society activist Joaquín Elo.
CIVICUS speaks about a recent court order protecting LGBTQI+ people in Kenya with the advocacy team of the Centre for Minority Rights and Strategic Litigation (CMRSL), a civil society organisation working for the equality and dignity of LGBTQI+ people and against discrimination and violence.
CIVICUS speaks with Fabián Werner, president of the Centre for Archive and Access to Public Information (CAinfo), about a Media Law being discussed in Uruguay’s Congress.
CIVICUS speaks with Gürkan Özturan, media freedom monitoring officer with the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), about the concerning implications of a proposed law on foreign agents in Turkey.
CIVICUS speaks with Thijs Berman, executive director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), about the human rights concerns raised by the strict asylum policy proposed by the far right on joining the new government.
CIVICUS speaks with Carlos Martínez de la Serna, Program Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), about the vital role of journalists in armed conflicts, including the current war in Gaza, their protection under international humanitarian law and the challenges they face in doing their jobs.
CIVICUS speaks about Mexico’s 2 June general elections with Luis Eduardo Medina Torres, professor and elections researcher in the Department of Sociology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico.
CIVICUS speaks with Johanna Cilano, Amnesty International's researcher for the Caribbean, about protests in Cuba and the challenges of activism in closed civic space.
CIVICUS speaks with exiled Chinese human rights defender Zhou Fengsuo on the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
CIVICUS speaks with Tim Prudhoe, a lawyer with Stanbrook Prudhoe, about a legal challenge brought against discriminatory legislation against LGBTQI+ people and the struggle for equal rights of same-sex married partners in Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).
CIVICUS discusses the results of Panama’s recent presidential election with Olga de Obaldía, executive director of the Foundation for the Development of Civic Freedom.
CIVICUS speaks with Jonathan Fowler of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), about the agency’s role in Gaza and the challenges it faces.
CIVICUS speaks with Manuel Páez Ramírez, lawyer with the Human Rights and Environment Programme of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defence (AIDA), about the advisory opinion on climate emergency and human rights that Chile and Colombia have requested from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).
CIVICUS speaks with Ivan Novosel, director of programmes at Human Rights House Zagreb, about the results of Croatia’s recent parliamentary election and the potential consequences of the entry of the far-right Homeland Movement (DP) into the ruling coalition.
CIVICUS speaks with Tessa Dooms, Programmes Director at Rivonia Circle, about the upcoming general election in South Africa.
CIVICUS speaks with Nino Samkharadze, policy analyst at the Georgian Institute of Politics, about the controversial ‘foreign agents’ law just passed in Georgia.
CIVICUS speaks with Evan Drukker-Schardl of Climate Defiance about the disruptive tactics the organisation uses to put climate change on the agenda.
CIVICUS speaks about India’s ongoing elections with Aakar Patel, board chair of Amnesty International India.
CIVICUS speaks with Shahindha Ismail, founder of the Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN), about the recent parliamentary election in Maldives, the implications of the country’s realignment with China and the impacts of the climate crisis.
CIVICUS speaks with Darko Duridanski, executive director of the Independent Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers, about the recent election in North Macedonia.
CIVICUS speaks with Regina Fonseca, coordinator of the Strengthening the Right to Decide programme of the Women’s Rights Centre (CDM), about the case the organisation took to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee in search of changes to the ban on abortion in Honduras.
CIVICUS speaks about the erosion of international humanitarian law in the context of war in Gaza and other conflicts with Marco Sassòli, Professor of International Law at the Geneva University in Switzerland.
