Getting the Insight Out
This article examines how Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention reshaped the way femicide is measured and contested. It argues that reduced political commitment weakened the transparency of state data collection, increasing data reliance on civil society tracking and demonstrating that the measurement of violence is a political process in itself.
Mexico’s gender parity laws have achieved numerical equality in political positions, but they have not ensured true political power or autonomy for women. Assessing Mexico’s top-down reforms against a bottom-up model like Sweden’s illustrates how real empowerment depends on political culture, not quotas alone.
Democratic collapse is not always sudden. While a coup d’état is a clear break, democracies can be subtly dismantled through processes that erode their foundational elements. Citizens often fail to recognize a state’s descent into fascism—a political movement defined by militarism and the suppression of individual rights—until they have lost the democratic power to counter it.
Morocco’s Gen Z is reigniting the legacy of the Arab Spring, using platforms like Discord and TikTok to organize protests and demand reform, proving that digital resistance continues to evolve.