Whitehall appears to be panicking after years of excessive secrecy and complacency. But leaks are no substitute for effective scrutiny by a functioning parliamentary democracy.
Kyrgyzstan’s parliament has stripped a powerful ex-president of immunity, and now this Central Asian state is moving towards an all-too familiar scenario.
Парламент Кыргызстана лишил экс-президента страны Алмазбека Атамбаева неприкосновенности. Теперь ему грозит уголовное дело – а в стране нарастает конфликт между бывшей и действующей властью.
Tupí is an indigenous activist denouncing violence against women and fighting to protect human rights and the environment in her region. This is chapter five of our series 'Rainforest Defenders', where we present the stories of activists fighting to save the Amazon in Brazil.
We knew that ultra-conservative, far-right and anti-democratic forces were seeking to influence the outcome. So we teamed up with journalists across Europe to investigate them.
