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.

Bangladesh's first credible election in almost two decades has brought the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) back to power in a landslide.

Nepal's 5 March election delivered a landslide victory to the relatively new Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), ending years of fragile coalitions in which three established politicians repeatedly rotated as prime minister.

Israel's assault on Iran, launched with the USA, has shifted the global spotlight away from its ongoing violations of the rights of people in Gaza, where killing continues despite the October ceasefire.

The 62nd Munich Security Conference showed the extent of the rupture in the international order.

Iran's biggest uprising since the 1979 revolution began on 28 December 2025, when economic collapse sparked protests that rapidly spread across the country, drawing in a broader cross-section of society than any previous wave of unrest.