‘Civil society’s participation in COP27 is important because it represents the voices of communities’

‘We doubt that we will be able to mobilise as we did around COP26’

‘Civil society must get involved because political actors cannot find a solution to our problems’

‘The main challenge is to consolidate legally recognised rights and prevent backsliding’

‘Climate justice requires debt cancellation, reparations and non-debt climate finance for small island developing states’

‘The main culprits of the current crisis are bank owners and their greed for profit’

‘For a major segment of civil society security is a more urgent concern than democracy’

‘Mahsa Amini’s case was a spark in a flammable situation’

‘Anyone who committed crimes during the civil wars should be prosecuted, wherever they are’

‘We have come a long way, but more needs to be done to further open up civic space’