To help illuminate and analyze the notable number of major antigovernment protests that have been occurring around the world in recent years, the Carnegie Endowment maintains the Global Protest Tracker, which
Despite democracy being a core principle of the United Nations, there is no dedicated UN mechanism to monitor and protect it. This article makes the case for the appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur.
An event titled “Democracy and Human Rights” was held in the margins of the 58th session of the UN’s Human Rights Council to brief diplomats on the proposed new mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy.
The Open Science Justice Lab at the University of Amsterdam has launched a project to advance research and knowledge sharing in support of developing a global constitution. Contributions are welcome.
The 2025 V-Dem report finds that 45 countries are affected by autocratization and 19 are in episodes of democratization. Special attention is given to the United States which is rapidly backsliding.
This article outlines some of the take aways of CIVICUS’ 2025 State of Civil Society Report, arguing that civil society represents humanity’s best hope in a world of crises and rising authoritarianism.
During the AI Action Summit, held in Paris on February 10-11, 2025, a Global Coalition for Inclusive AI was officially launched. Co-initiated by Missions Publiques and the Stanford Deliberative Democracy
The sudden suspension of U.S. foreign aid under President Donald Trump has triggered a global humanitarian crisis. To be clear, a US court has held that the abrupt shuttering of
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index 2024, published recently, presents a complex picture of the state of democracy worldwide in the previous year. Covering 165 independent states and two
This guest article provides a preview of the upcoming book “Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech”
For decades, the U.S. positioned itself as the guardian of global order, claiming to uphold sovereignty, fair trade, and multilateralism. But that illusion is gone. Today, the U.S. and China
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