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Free speech

Protecting freedom of expression is a permanent challenge

Quality media deserve appreciation because only they enable people to form and express informed opinions

Journalism

Brave Filipina fighting for the factual truth

The independent website Rappler has become an indispensable source of information in the Philippines

Civil liberties

Duterte’s dreadful human-rights record

Human-rights abuses and extrajudicial killings have become common in the Philippines

Democracy

Facebook investor: democracy and freedom are incompatible

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is more dangerous than an FT portrait admits

Prison conditions

D+C correspondent locked up in Zimbabwean prison

Jeffrey Moyo endured three weeks in Zimbabwean jails under horrifying conditions

Our view

The truth must be remembered

Those who suppress the historical truth, ultimately want to suppress people

Mauritius

How Mauritian journalists report about women

Researcher provides evidence of Mauritian media not treating both genders equally

Gender justice

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

Social media

Hundreds of thousands of online trolls support Duterte

In the Philippines, we see how social media undermine democracy

Human rights

India has become “a flawed democracy”

Why international experts now consider what used to be the world’s largest democracy a damaged one

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.