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With the climate crisis escalating fast, calls for more authoritarian decision-making structures – widely viewed as more efficient – are increasing. But the notion that any version of an authoritarian system would be free of “special interests,” and run by neutral, rational technocrats, is implausible.

19 Sep 2023

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

Stamping out corruption will be a major challenge to the new government. The relationship between politics and business is a major source of illicit political funds. Will a new bill enhance transparency of political financing or donations?

Maria Ressa, investigative journalist

Authoritarian governments have weaponised online tools and platforms to control journalists and stifle freedom of expression.

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Organised crime in the fisheries sector occurs globally throughout the entire value chain, taking massive toll on human populations worldwide. How can we address these crimes?

17 June 2020

yemen mountain region

15 June 2020

labourers in Nepal river

7 April 2020

Indigenous peoples in Brazil

29 April 2019

flooded jakarta

15 March 2019

illegal gold mining

16 November 2018

Hong Kong media waiting for a story

14 September 2018

A sunset behind an oil refinery in Scotland

21 August 2018

A member of the Sekonyer Community in Kalimantan, Indonesia

20 July 2018

26 January 2018

Women sort and check the finished products in the manufacturing plant of the Wool Tex Sweaters Limited in Shewrapara, Dhaka, Bangladesh

6 June 2017

Cambodia Independence monument

29 May 2017

Garment factory worker in Cambodia

27 March 2017

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15 November 2016

Ministry of Communications and Information building in Singapore

19 August 2016

china floodwaters wading

6 April 2016

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