By Dominic Perera, CIVICUS Monitor Project Officer at CIVICUS Earlier this month, Bangladesh captured international headlines as an enormous fire ripped through an informal settlement in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

By Josef Benedict, Civic Space Researcher at CIVICUS Since June 2019, over a million people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong on a weekly basis to demonstrate.

By David Kode, Advocacy and Campaigns Lead at CIVICUS Exactly four months after former President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan was pushed out of power, and a few weeks after the military rulers and civilians signed a peace deal to thrash out the political transition, ordinary Sudanese continue to pay a heavy price.

By Paul Mulindwa, an advocacy and campaigns officer with CIVICUS.