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’It is illusory to believe that an electoral process can be carried out in Haiti’
On February 7, amid an atmosphere of political decline and heightened crisis, the mandate of Haiti’s transitional presidential council came to an end. Parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled for August 30 and December 16, 2026. However, these elections are unlikely to happen, argues political scientist Frédéric Thomas in this op-ed for Le Monde. Haiti is in a state of war. More than 8,100 murders were recorded between January and November 2025, while armed gangs (...)
Anatomy of India’s New Regime
India’s current regime rests on three interwoven factors: Hindutva, a captured civil society, and an authoritarian state. Together they have produced a decade-long collective suspension of disbelief. The challenge is to contest all three arenas simultaneously & produce a new imagination for (…)
Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras - The Dark Side of the Energy Transition
This TNI report examines how large-scale solar projects in Honduras have reproduced patterns of dispossession, repression, and corporate profiteering in the name of the green transition. Through the lens of “green colonialism,” it explores how foreign investors, privatization, and investor (…)
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Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution. Post-war food security Food policies in the Global South have evolved (…)
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More pragmatic than socialist - Burkina Faso’s recent politics is no remake of Sankarism
Since Burkina Faso’s current president Ibrahim Traoré came to power through a military coup in 2022, parallels between Traoré and the country’s former president and Pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara (1983-1987) have become commonplace. In this context, ROAPE’s Bettina Engels urges caution in (…)
Women’s Political Participation in Yemen: Institutional Pathways and Dynamics of Inclusion
Executive Summary Women’s political participation in Yemen is declining. It is also taking place within a political system that is increasingly fragmented, informal, and dependent on closed power-sharing arrangements. Before the outbreak of the current conflict, the institutional pathways (…)
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ICARRD+20 and the emerging global coalition behind the 4Rs
Land Redistribution, Recognition, Restitution and Regulation ICARRD+20 in Cartagena brought governments, scholars, and social movements together to revisit the unfinished agenda of agrarian reform. Amid deepening land inequality and ecological crisis, debates converged around the 4Rs: (…)
Western Sahara: Whose right to exist?
Last week, Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop announced that his country would no longer recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, throwing Bamako’s weight, instead, behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara. The decision is not especially surprising—Mali is locked in a (…)
Kashmiri protests over Iran and Palestine are also protests over Kashmir
When news broke that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, had been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike on 28 February, thousands of Kashmiris poured into Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar, scaling its iconic clock tower to drape it with his portrait and Palestinian flags. The authorities (…)
A reckoning for Thailand’s liberals
Thailand’s February 2026 election was a disaster for reformist politics in Thailand, and the People’s Party bears much of the blame. Not only did it facilitate Bhumjaithai’s capture of the state in the lead up to the polls—by treating Pheu Thai as an establishment adversary, the liberal (…)
The UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Regulating Corporate Power in the Era of Deregulation
This study published by South Centre and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) examines how the United Nations Legally Binding Instrument serves as a vital tool to preserve state sovereignty and to ensure the primacy of human rights in the era of deregulation. Read the full report below.
Les offensives anti-genre
10/09/2026 Namur
Du tiers-monde au Sud global : 50 ans de luttes anticoloniales
17/09/2026 Centre LaVallée
Discussion autour de : Haïti. Briser le piège colonial
19/09/2026 Paris
Discussion autour de : Haïti. Briser le piège colonial
23/09/2026 Bruxelles
Cycle de conférences du CETRI : le Sud global à l’épreuve du nouvel ordre mondial
01/10/2026 Louvain-la-Neuve