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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisTunisia may end up with an all-male parliament – by design
President Kais Saied has made it harder for women to run for office, reversing a decade of gains from gender quotas
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisHow gendered violence is used to try to silence Zimbabwe’s female politicians
Men are weaponising online abuse and physical violence to keep women’s voices out of politics
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisYoung Nigerians struggle to disrupt old power at upcoming election
Millions of young people have registered to vote, but the candidates in next year’s election are old and limited
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisMoscow’s local elections: A fight against despair
Many activists view the elections as a vote on the war in Ukraine – and a chance to prove a desire for democracy
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhat lies behind Kenyan president-elect William Ruto’s homophobia
Ruto says there is no room for homosexuality in a ‘republic that worships God’. But it’s not just about religion
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisIs Latin America shifting to the Left again?
After the Left’s success in Chile, Honduras and Peru last year, will Brazil and Colombia follow suit in 2022?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisAfter North Shropshire, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer should be worried
Yesterday’s by-election saw the Tories implode and Labour fail to make ground. The Lib Dems will be hoping this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf Tory MPs want to protect freedom, why are they supporting the Elections Bill?
Let’s not suffer from selective liberalism. Civil liberties are for life, not just for Christmas rebellions
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionThe dilemma of Lebanese expats: to vote or not to vote?
The shrouded line between casting a vote for change in Lebanon’s 2022 election or boycotting the system altogether
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFunding the far right
How is public money disproportionately helping far right parties?
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhither Poland? After the 2019 parliamentary elections
The 2020 Presidential election will be the first indicator of how the Polish electorate is responding to the work of...
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Published in: ourEconomyAsad Rehman: 'Every brick in this country has come because we’ve exploited another part of the world'
The climate activist and director of War on Want speaks to ourEconomy about green colonialism and the global commons.
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Published in: ourEconomyVIDEO: interview with Owen Jones
'We can’t allow this to be the Brexit election, it has to be an election about the injustices that led to this...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe president’s wedding: micro-politics of mass mobilisation in Egypt’s 2018 election
The micro-level responses, and the individual and local acts of agency still reaffirm Egypt’s longstanding tradition...