This piece is written by Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General of CIVICUS. As he begins his tenure, Mandeep reflects on the urgent challenges facing civil society and global leadership in a time of crisis.
As I step into the role of Secretary General at CIVICUS, the world’s preeminent civil society alliance, I do so at a moment of global reckoning. From Gaza to Sudan, Myanmar to Ukraine, we are witnessing not just a crisis of conflict, but a crisis of leadership — and Washington must decide whether to be part of the problem or the solution. International institutions are failing when they’re most needed. We are witnessing the live-streamed genocide of entire peoples. Despite the courage and empathy exhibited by activists like those in the Madleen Freedom Flotilla, we find some politicians ridiculing them and calling for them to be held in solitary confinement. Armed forces in several parts of the world are committing war crimes with impunity, indiscriminately attacking civilians and torturing prisoners.
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