The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

Iran executes three men in relation to January anti-regime protests

Iran has executed three men charged in connection with political protests this January, authorities have said, the latest in a wave of hangings against the backdrop of the war against the US and Israel.

Khartoum drone strike kills five in Sudan, NGO reports

The attack, the second in a week, follows months of relative calm in the city after government forces regained control last year.

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Myanmar democracy icon detained for years

Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held in detention since a military coup in 2021, has been moved to house arrest, the country’s state media reported.

Mexico’s Bloodiest Ink: The World’s Most Dangerous Job

According to Varieties of Democracy’s Liberal Democracy metric, Mexico has actually declined by 0.03 points in terms of specific freedoms like expression and association.

Quitting ECHR would group Britain with Russia, rights chief warns

Speaking to POLITICO, the secretary general of the Council of Europe said it was the U.K.’s choice whether it wanted to stay in the treaty or not.

‘The narrative offered to French students completely ignores the Black figures who shaped France’s history’

French history teacher Benoît Drouot writes that, despite the universalist ideals claimed by the French public education system, the numerous Black figures who ‘played an active role in building our democratic and republican system’ remain persistently sidelined in school curricula.