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Hungary Votes, and a Rights Test Begins

Hungary’s election on 12 April 2026 has already made history. Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat, and the fall of the long-dominant Fidesz-KDNP alliance now raises a harder question: will political...

12 April 2026 · 6 min read

Africa

Sudan’s General Burhan: an Islamist then and now

In trying to understand Sudan, and the civil war that has killed up to 150,000 people in the last three years—a toll twice as bloody as Gaza—it is important from...

21 March 2026 · 3 min read

Europe

Can Strasbourg Catch Up With the CRPD?

Europe Can No Longer Defend Article 5(1)(e) Europe’s human-rights system is facing a difficult question: can the European Court of Human Rights move closer to the disability-rights standard set by...

14 March 2026 · 10 min read

Human Rights

UN Human Rights Council Opens 2026 Session in Geneva

From Afghanistan and Sudan to Ukraine and child rights, the 61st regular session maps the year’s global human-rights agenda The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is convening its sixty-first...

24 February 2026 · 4 min read