Opinions & Features

Public Scrutiny Really Does Help the Unjustly Detained

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.

Accountability and Civic Participation Can Help Advance SDGs

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.

The disappeared are no longer someone else’s story

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.

Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders

By Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General and Susan Marx, Chief Programmes Officer Every Aug.

Choosing Courage over Despair: Civil Society Is Notching Up Wins Despite Hostile Conditions

By Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS Secretary General We live in a world where cruel and unaccountable power is on the ascendant.

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