Interviews

AUSTRIA: ‘Anticorruption should not be an abstract legal agenda – it must directly improve people’s lives’

CIVICUS discusses a recent United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council resolution on corruption and human rights with Betina Pasteknik, the UNCAC Coalition’s Head of Operations and Working Groups and co-chair of its Working Group on Human Rights and Corruption.

EL SALVADOR: ‘Who will take the mic at the United Nations when doing so might cost them their freedom?’

CIVICUS discusses civil society’s challenges in engaging with United Nations (UN) processes with an activist from a Salvadoran queer-led organisation who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.

PORTUGAL: ‘It’s unfair to ask communities who live sustainably to bear the costs of the climate crisis’

CIVICUS discusses resistance to lithium mining with members of United in Defence of Covas do Barroso (UDCB), a grassroots movement challenging a mining project in a farming village in northern Portugal.

BELGIUM: ‘When governments don’t enforce their laws, civil society can – and will – step in’

CIVICUS speaks with Jo Dirix, a campaigner with Vredesactie (Peace Action), a Belgium peace and disarmament civil society organisation (CSO) that successfully took the Flemish government to court over arms shipments to Israel.

GLOBAL: ‘Peoples have a right to self-determination, whether they are part of an internationally recognised state or not’

CIVICUS speaks with Mercè Monje Cano, Secretary General of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), about the struggles of unrepresented peoples seeking self-determination and how UNPO supports them in asserting their rights.

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