The race for the presidency will significantly shape the state of the country — and indeed, Philippine democracy — for many years to come.

An upcoming review of overseas students’ working hours raises the possibility of changes being reversed and risks uncertainty for those in precarious working conditions.

After students led the anti-Lukashenko protests of summer 2020, a wave of repression has since followed.

In Russia, students and academics face expulsion, sacking and arrest as the government cracks down on political expression.

Students unionists face expulsion from university, imprisonment, terror charges and torture.