FREEDOMS

CIVIL AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS

‘Rather than strengthening democratic institutions, the government is entrenching military power’

Andrie Yunus | INDONESIA

‘Our legal challenge of the funding freeze is testing the judiciary’s ability to check executive power’

Eric Bjornlund | UNITED STATES

‘In the name of transparency, the anti-NGO law seeks to silence civil society’

Álvaro Henzler | PERU

‘It takes non-violent, disruptive actions to make our government pay attention’

Youth Demand | UNITED KINGDOM

‘If civil society doesn’t speak now, we risk having nothing left to defend in just a couple of years’

Rümeysa Çamdereli | TURKEY

‘The recent attacks on activists echo apartheid-era repression, although this is supposedly a democracy’

Corlett Letlojane | SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘As civil society, we must mobilise our forces to defend the democratic principles of our country’

Valentin Stel | FRANCE

‘Protesters are calling for immediate justice and long-term reforms’

Borjan Eftimov | NORTH MACEDONIA

‘The discovery of the torture centre exposed the state’s complicity with organised crime’

Anna Karolina Chimiak | MEXICO

‘The new foreign agents’ law isn’t about transparency – it’s about silencing dissent’

Damjan Ožegović | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA