Did you know that a staggering 72% of the global population lives under autocratic rule, with only 13% of people in full liberal democracies? Rather than progressing towards a more just and free world as was once the vision, local and international democracy is in decline, retreating to where we were in the mid-1980s.
As we close the chapter on 2024 – dubbed possibly “democracy’s biggest year” – we have seen elections marred by misinformation, low turnouts, polarisation and foreign interference. Meanwhile, the rise of the far right across Europe, and the UK’s recent wave of anti-immigration riots ...
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