French por Anabel Cruz, presidenta de la Junta Directiva de CIVICUS 2016-2019 A principios de 1993, la democracia era aún bastante «joven» en muchas partes del mundo.

The world is filled with injustice, hate speech, violence and oppression.

By Uma Mishra-Newbery, Interim Executive Director of Women’s March Global, which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition & Kristina Stockwood works with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) This article was facilitated by CIVICUS as part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs) Amid a high-profile public relations campaign to convince the world just how much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is modernising – highlighted in last year’s lifting of the ban on women driving – Saudi authorities continue their relentless persecution of women human rights defenders.

By Mawethu Nkosana, Crisis Response Fund Administrator at CIVICUS Romanian Adrian Coman and his American-born partner Clai Hamilton had two major reasons to celebrate when they tied the knot last June.