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Despite the challenges faced by local democratic activists, Thailand has often been an oasis of relative liberalism compared with neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

As Liberal MP Pam Damoff prepares to leave politics, she joins other Canadian women MPs in warning that growing threats and harassment are driving them out of politics.

The birth of Indian democracy is the stuff of legend. It was a moment of such staggering idealism and exuberance, a leap of faith so audacious, that the famous jurist and scholar Kenneth Wheare termed it “the biggest liberal experiment in democratic government” that the world had seen.

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

A history scholar convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents by ingratiating himself as a sympathizer has been spared prison time by a U.S. judge

We all have heard this oft-repeated phrase: “India is the biggest democracy in the world.” But scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find it resembles less a republic and more a fiefdom – run by a handful of upper-caste, upper-class Indians who, although numerically a minority, continue to dominate nearly…

A wave of restrictions on protesting has been rippling through Australia’s top universities.

Voting isn't nearly enough — we need a communal process for democratic decision-making. Just ask the Athenians

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party has received its members’ mandate to proceed with steps toward a potential disbandment, part of the erosion of political freedoms as China cracks down on dissent in the southern city