Dear Friends and Partners,
From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street protests, 2011 will be remembered as the year we realised the power we hold to change the world.
This year, for Human Rights Day, CIVICUS is asking you to support the Crisis Response Fund (CRF). In 2009-2010 CIVICUS tracked and documented threats to civil society in over 90 countries in every region of the globe. The Crisis Response Fund reacts quickly and decisively when these threats arise, and in 2011 we have achieved some important successes. The campaign by CIVICUS and our partners in the Philippines resulted in the release of the Morong 43, a group of wrongfully imprisoned health workers. We supported the International Observation Station in Minsk in monitoring and documenting human rights violations, and sent lawyer Me Oyane Ondo to the African Commission of Human and People's Rights to advocate for Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa. We have supported initiatives in Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.
And the work of the Crisis Response Fund is not done. With your help we can continue to strengthen, empower and enable civil society around the world.
