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CIVICUS speaks with Johanna Cilano, Amnesty International's researcher for the Caribbean, about protests in Cuba and the challenges of activism in closed civic space.
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CIVICUS speaks with exiled Chinese human rights defender Zhou Fengsuo on the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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CIVICUS speaks with Tim Prudhoe, a lawyer with Stanbrook Prudhoe, about a legal challenge brought against discriminatory legislation against LGBTQI+ people and the struggle for equal rights of same-sex married partners in Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).
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CIVICUS discusses the results of Panama’s recent presidential election with Olga de Obaldía, executive director of the Foundation for the Development of Civic Freedom.
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CIVICUS speaks with Jonathan Fowler of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), about the agency’s role in Gaza and the challenges it faces.
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CIVICUS speaks with Manuel Páez Ramírez, lawyer with the Human Rights and Environment Programme of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defence (AIDA), about the advisory opinion on climate emergency and human rights that Chile and Colombia have requested from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).
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CIVICUS speaks with Ivan Novosel, director of programmes at Human Rights House Zagreb, about the results of Croatia’s recent parliamentary election and the potential consequences of the entry of the far-right Homeland Movement (DP) into the ruling coalition.
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CIVICUS speaks with Tessa Dooms, Programmes Director at Rivonia Circle, about the upcoming general election in South Africa.
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CIVICUS speaks with Nino Samkharadze, policy analyst at the Georgian Institute of Politics, about the controversial ‘foreign agents’ law just passed in Georgia.
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CIVICUS speaks with Evan Drukker-Schardl of Climate Defiance about the disruptive tactics the organisation uses to put climate change on the agenda.
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CIVICUS speaks about India’s ongoing elections with Aakar Patel, board chair of Amnesty International India.
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CIVICUS speaks with Shahindha Ismail, founder of the Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN), about the recent parliamentary election in Maldives, the implications of the country’s realignment with China and the impacts of the climate crisis.
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CIVICUS speaks with Darko Duridanski, executive director of the Independent Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers, about the recent election in North Macedonia.
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CIVICUS speaks with Regina Fonseca, coordinator of the Strengthening the Right to Decide programme of the Women’s Rights Centre (CDM), about the case the organisation took to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee in search of changes to the ban on abortion in Honduras.
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CIVICUS speaks about the erosion of international humanitarian law in the context of war in Gaza and other conflicts with Marco Sassòli, Professor of International Law at the Geneva University in Switzerland.
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CIVICUS speaks about the challenges of Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election and the recent selection of an opposition candidate with Guillermo Aveledo, Dean of Legal and Political Studies at the Metropolitan University of Caracas.
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CIVICUS speaks with Alicia Méndez Medina of the Junta de Prietas collective about the campaign for the legalisation of abortion and feminist, anti-racist and other rights struggles in the Dominican Republic.
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CIVICUS discusses the growing repression of civil and political liberties and the consolidation of power by Mali’s military junta with a civil society activist who asked to stay anonymous for security reasons.
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CIVICUS speaks about struggles to access abortion services in the USA with Sheena Dooley, Gabriela Fuentes and Mazie Stilwell of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa (PPAI).
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CIVICUS speaks about the rise of the far right in Brazil with Flávia Pellegrino, executive coordinator of the Pact for Democracy.
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CIVICUS speaks with Noa Muhoozi Kainerugaba, team leader at Trans Refugee Initiative, about Uganda’s Constitutional Court’s recent ruling upholding the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act.
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CIVICUS speaks with Dr Elisabeth Stern, board member of KlimaSeniorinnen Switzerland (Senior Women for Climate Protection), a civil society organisation representing older Swiss women who recently won a climate litigation case against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights.
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CIVICUS speaks with Vandita Morarka, founder and CEO of the One Future Collective, about AI-powered disinformation in the campaign for India’s current election.
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CIVICUS speaks about civil society’s lawsuit to try to stop Germany’s exports of arms to Israel with Alexander Schwarz, a German human rights lawyer and deputy program director of the International Crimes and Accountability Program of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).
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CIVICUS speaks with Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, regional director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Turkey, about Turkey’s recent municipal elections that saw opposition parties gain ground.
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CIVICUS speaks with Daryl Phillip, founder and coordinator of Minority Rights Dominica (MiRiDom), about a recent High Court ruling that decriminalised same-sex relations in Dominica.
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CIVICUS speaks about the ‘Anti-LGBTQI+ bill’ recently passed in Ghana with Solomon Atsuvia, Programmes Manager at Rightify Ghana.
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CIVICUS speaks with Maverick Peter Seda, cofounder and coordinator of Youth for Change Solomon Islands (YFCSI), about civil society engagement in the country’s 17 April general election.
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CIVICUS speaks with Eva Ekelund, Deputy Director of Act Church of Sweden, about the Swedish International Development Agency’s (Sida) decision to terminate their agreements with strategic partner civil society organisations (CSOs).
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CIVICUS speaks with Rasmus Alenius Boserup, executive director of EuroMed Rights, about the recent deal signed between the European Union (EU) and Egypt and its implications for the rights of migrants and refugees.
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CIVICUS speaks with Chris Jones, executive director of Statewatch, about the European Union’s (EU) Prüm II regulation and its implications for human rights and civic freedoms.
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CIVICUS speaks about recent protests against femicides in Somalia with Ilyas Adam, a Center for Victims of Torture fellow, award-winning human rights journalist and senior consultant at the Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders (CSHRD).
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CIVICUS speaks with Amina Hersi, head of Gender Rights and Justice at Oxfam International, about women’s rights activism and anti-gender backlash at the 68th session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main UN forum promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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CIVICUS speaks with Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, chair of the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF), about the response to the earthquake that Taiwan experienced in early April – the strongest in 25 years.
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CIVICUS speaks with Julio Armando Morón Pulido of CIVILIS about the threat posed by a draft law against fascism currently in discussion in Venezuela’s congress.
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CIVICUS speaks about Chad’s upcoming presidential election with Remadji Hoinathy, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies’s (ISS) Regional Office for West Africa.
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CIVICUS speaks with Mahad Wasuge, executive director of Somali Public Agenda (SPA), about recent constitutional change and its implications for Somali civil society.
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CIVICUS speaks with Brendan Gilligan, a legal fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) civil liberties team, about the US government’s initiative to ban TikTok or force its sale.
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CIVICUS speaks with activist Jeff Okoroafor about Nigeria’s security situation, including the trend of kidnappings of schoolchildren by rebel groups.
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CIVICUS speaks with freelance journalist Nancy Roc about the increase in gang violence and the political situation in Haiti.
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CIVICUS speaks with Floriane Volt, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at the Women’s Foundation (Fondation des Femmes), about recent changes to the French Constitution to include the right to abortion.
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CIVICUS speaks with Sinéad Murray, Communications, Membership and Information Officer at Treoir, about Ireland’s recent unsuccessful Family and Care Referendums.
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CIVICUS speaks with Bahati Rubango, country coordinator at the Women’s International Peace Centre (WIPC), about conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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CIVICUS speaks about the war in Sudan and its repercussions for women and civil society with Reem Abbas, a Sudanese feminist activist, writer and fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP).
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CIVICUS speaks with Ousmane Miphal Lankoandé, Executive Secretary and Coordinator of the governance and citizen mobilisation programme at Balai Citoyen (‘Civic Broom’) about human rights and civic space in Burkina Faso.
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CIVICUS speaks with Tatiana Luján, Materials Systems Lead at ClientEarth, about a lawsuit filed in collaboration with 15 other civil society organisations (CSOs) against a plan to open a huge plastics plant in Belgium, known as Project One, by petrochemicals giant INEOS.
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CIVICUS speaks with Vibe Klarup, Secretary General of Amnesty International Denmark, about the joint civil society lawsuit brought against the Danish state to stop Danish arms exports to Israel.
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CIVICUS speaks about Niger’s recent decision to suspend military cooperation with the USA with Dr Boubacar N’Diaye, Emeritus Professor of Pan-African Studies and Political Science at the College of Wooster, international consultant on security sector governance and former chair of the African Security Sector Network, a pan-African think tank focused on security governance issues in the continent, and particularly in West Africa.
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CIVICUS speaks with Malick Ndome, senior policy adviser and board member at the Council of Non-Governmental Organisations in Support of Development (CONGAD), about the recent election in Senegal.
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CIVICUS speaks with Myriam Correa, director of Collective Aid, about the situation of migrants across the Balkan migration route.
