With freedom of expression, association and assembly under attack in many countries in West Africa, experience suggests a greater need in response for intervention at the early stages of the drafting process of restrictive laws, policies or moves to introduce restrictive practices.
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CIVICUS has engaged with IRIBA on a project to create a short advertising spot to be launched at the 2012 CIVICUS World Assembly in September and featured at other external events, on the CIVICUS website, promoted on our social networks and shared with our members and partners.
UPDATE
Eskinder Nega was found guilty of encouraging "terrorist" acts and conspiring with rebels in Ethiopia's High Court on 27 June.
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Cirizen Participation have written an open letter to the Commonwealth secretary-general on their concerns about Uganda's treatment of human rights defenders.
Disappointment and frustration abound in Rio
Wanted: a new CIVICUS Secretary General
Final weekly webinar: cultural activists, the champions of social change
CIVICUS statement to UN Human Rights Council
Network profile: Nigeria Network of NGOs
NGO Major Group Statement delivered to Rio+20
Rio's roadmap falls flat, civil society groups say
CIVICUS expresses NGO Group disappointment in UN interview
The Future We Don’t Want
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