IBA Global Insight - April/May 2020

IBA Global Insight

April/May 2020

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The fight for media freedom

As the pandemic highlights the importance of free expression, Global Insight assesses the challenges facing those who seek to protect it

China’s Belt and Road Initiative faces major challenges

Serious concerns over the government’s treatment of the Uighurs, and the devastating outbreak of Covid-19, threaten to derail China’s ambitious project

Laboratory of autocracy

With the 2020 Presidential election fast approaching, Global Insight assesses the precarious state of democracy in the US

Global leaders: Martyn Day, Senior Partner, Leigh Day

Founded to act for the most vulnerable, Leigh Day is among the foremost law firms focused on business and human rights

Time’s up for fossil fuel funding

The carbon divestment movement has forced serious consideration of the rights and wrongs of financing fossil fuel

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Comment and analysis

 
Wuhan’s whistleblowers

Before Covid-19 became a pandemic, the Chinese authorities suppressed information received from experts including whistleblower doctors in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. The move has proved devastating.

 
State capture in Angola

The age-old story of grotesque corruption, state capture and Western complicity has repeated time and time again across Africa for generations. The latest revelations about Angola are simply another abject example of rule of law failure.

 
Foreign interventions deepen Libya’s divide

Libya is fast becoming another of the world’s humanitarian crises, while the international community vies for the country’s oil interests.

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