Did you know that only 4% of the total Official Development Assistance (ODA) supports programmes that integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment as the main objective? And only 3% of that fraction goes to women’s rights organisations.
Opinions & Features
By David Kode, advocacy and campaigns lead for CIVICUS
Once again, the state of democracy on the continent will be tested as millions of Africans go to the polls this year to decide who will lead them for the next few years.
By Josef Benedict, civic space researcher at CIVICUS
One tactic that CIVICUS has seen increasingly being used by the government to target activists and NGOs is to label them as “terrorists” or “communist fronts”, particularly those who have been critical of Duterte’s deadly “war on drugs” that has killed thousands.
By David Kode, Advocacy and Campaigns Lead
President Ramaphosa and the AU have a crucial role in aiding the continuation of Guinea's democracy.
By Lysa John Berna, Secretary-General of CIVICUS and Mandeep Singh Tiwana Chief Programmes Officer at CIVICUS
A respected woman social activist and political leader beaten and kicked in the stomach at a police station for recording a public protest.
