Special Issue: Looking Ahead in 2024

The challenges we currently face as freedom of expression and information advocates are rooted in events that took place last year, which were closely monitored by Regional Editors Cathal Sheerin, Laura Vidal, Mong Palatino, Naseem Tarawnah and Reyhana Masters, and reported on in their monthly Regional Briefs.

So we asked them: Given what you saw last year, what are some hot spots and critical issues to keep an eye on in the coming months?

In response, they have drawn our attention to threats to press freedom, suppression of the right to protest, obstacles to access to information, the impact of the shrinking of civic space on elections, and international judicial efforts to bring about accountability and end impunity.

With their necessary focus on threats to the rights we promote and defend, these pieces may enrage, but we also hope they will inform, and inspire, igniting greater action and engagement with these critical issues.

We are stronger, together! Read on!