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New data shows rising autocratization across the UNECE region, with growing attacks on civil society, media freedom, and democratic rights in Europe, the UK, and the United States.
Across the UNECE region, public debate is increasingly shaped by attacks on independent media, growing political pressure on journalists, and the normalisation of anti-rights narratives.
Pronatalist narratives are increasingly moving from fringe far-right spaces into mainstream politics, media, and corporate campaigns. From Elon Musk’s warnings about “population collapse” to Swedish advertising campaigns promoting childbirth, demographic anxiety is being reframed as a societal crisis, often tied to anti-migration politics, anti-gender narratives, and nationalist ideas about family, identity, and the future.