The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, held in Colombia in April, came at a defining moment.

Four countries have banned children from accessing social media, five more have passed laws awaiting implementation and around 40 more are considering bans.

Péter Magyar's Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority in Hungary's 12 April parliamentary election, ending 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule.

On 8 April, states on the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council elected 19 new members of the NGO Committee, the body that decides which civil society organisations receive the consultative status that gives them access to the UN system.

Min Aung Hlaing, leader of Myanmar's military coup turned president, stands accused of genocide against the country's Rohingya minority in an Indonesian court case filed by a survivor.

More than four years into its war on Ukraine, Russia is increasingly recruiting soldiers from African countries to fill its depleted ranks.

In Denmark's 24 March election, the Social Democrats got their worst result in over 120 years.

The conservative Bhumjaithai Party won Thailand's 8 February election, while the progressive People's Party lost seats.

International Women's Day 2026 was marked by protests across the world, uniting a feminist response to interlocking assaults on women's lives: rising femicide and sexual violence, the systematic dismantling of equality funding and policies, raging war and the erosion of civic space.

The Commission on the Status of Women's latest session was the most contested ever.