The year 2024 is an election super year, with over 60 countries and nearly half of the global population heading to the polls. This Democracy Report, issued by the V-Dem Institute, illuminates the significance of this year by...
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The European Union is on track to establish groundbreaking standards as the first jurisdiction globally to regulate online disinformation and hate speech comprehensively. This journey began in June 2022, with major tech companies...
The approach for identifying "systemic risks" in compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA) for the largest platforms and search engines remains unclear. AlgorithmWatch has outlined a methodology to serve as a benchmark for...
On 3 December 2020 the European Commission published the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP), a strategy composed of several legislative and non-legislative initiatives aiming at supporting citizens and democracies across the EU...
Global internet freedom faced a continued decline, marking the 13th consecutive year of deterioration. Iran witnessed the most severe decline, intensifying digital repression by shutting down internet services, blocking WhatsApp...
Parliaments hold a crucial and potentially transformative role in fostering societies that uphold the human rights of all individuals within the nation. The Effective Human Rights Engagement for Parliamentary Bodies: A Toolkit...
This Orientation Paper sets the background for the work of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Sustainable Use of Land and Nature-based Solutions (SUL_NBS). It includes the specific challenges to be addressed and the description of...
This global synthesis report is the most comprehensive knowledge review on kelp to date, revealing the state of science on the world’s kelp forests and providing recommended actions to build the recovery of the world’s kelp...