CIVICUS has had the opportunity to study the draft sustainability framework and in particular the draft Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability put together by the IFC.

CIVICUS condemns the arrest and detainment of Andrey Yurov, Head of the International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus.

A CIVICUS inventor passes away – remembering a great civil society leader -  Ingrid Srinath Defrosting the Chilling Effect -  Adele Poskit, Policy officer, CIVICUS NANGO Calls for end to Harassment of Civil Society Activists by Zimbabwe Republic Police Internal displacement on the rise in Libya Changing political spaces of Civil Society Organisations: Report New Zealand Aid Development Scholarships Jobs and internships and; Loads of civil society related news Read this issue online or subscribe now and get all future issues in your inbox!

Rowena McNaughton interviews human rights activist and director of Arab NGO Network for Development, Ziad Abdel Samad.