By Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS Secretary General and Susan Marx, Chiefs Programmes Officer
Across authoritarian regimes and even democracies, state apparatuses frequently achieve the same outcome through formal legal machinery: weaponizing extraordinary counterterror statutes in the name of national security, imposing endless pre-trial detention, and relying on procedural delays to remove dissenting voices from the public sphere.
Opinions & Features
By Jesselina Rana, UN Advisor
The annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) brings together government officials, civil society, and UN agencies to assess progress on the SDGs.
By Susan Marx, Chief Programmes Officer
This past weekend, a message came through on Community Action for Resident Equity’s (CARE) Signal group, the network of neighbors I help organize here in Atlanta.
By Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General and Susan Marx, Chief Programmes Officer
Every Aug.
By Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS Secretary General
We live in a world where cruel and unaccountable power is on the ascendant.
