Democracy at Risk

Turkish police have detained over 1,100 people, including journalists, amid unrest following the arrest of Erdogan's main rival.

The US flew more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador after Trump...

Scientists warn that Trump's sweeping NOAA job cuts threaten climate research, hurricane forecasting, and public safety.

Women's rights regressed around the world due to factors ranging from climate change to democratic backsliding, UN Women report.

Other German parties see the far-right AfD as a threat to democracy, but the anti-immigration party has a powerful friend...

Outraged protesters gathered outside South Korea's parliament in disbelief at President Yoon Suk Yeol's decision to impose the country's first...

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Georgia against a controversial "foreign influence" bill, after parliament advanced the measure that...

Some 13,000 Haitian migrants were forcibly returned home by neighboring countries in March, despite a worsening humanitarian and security crisis,...

Russians started voting in a three-day presidential election that is set to hand veteran leader Vladimir Putin another six-year term...

Hong Kong activists staged a protest against plans for a new national security law, saying it lacked democratic oversight and...

UN Secretary-General Guterres warned the world is entering "an age of chaos" with a deeply divided Security Council unable to...

Colombia recorded the deaths of 181 rights activists and community leaders in 2023, the ombudsman's office said, as the country...

Taiwan goes to the polls on Saturday in a closely-watched election that Chinese officials have described as a choice "between...

Iranian authorities have questioned or arrested over 90 journalists since nationwide protests rocked the Islamic republic last year.

A court in Minsk sentenced an investigative journalist to eight years in prison, the reclusive country's Belarusian Association of Journalists...

Former Russian state television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested against Moscow's Ukraine offensive during a live broadcast, was Monday put...

A Saudi woman recently jailed for 45 years was sentenced for using Twitter to "challenge" the country's king and crown...

Russian investigators launched a criminal probe against Marina Ovsyannikova, who denounced Putin's attack on Ukraine on live TV, and detained...

A Japanese journalist detained in Myanmar has been charged with breaching immigration law and encouraging dissent against the military.

The US said that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by gunfire from Israeli positions but that...