In June 2017, the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (Juventud LAC) organized their fifth Regional Forum, bringing together over 50 activists from 18 countries from across Latin American and the Caribbean. Participants engaged in several workshops and debates on critical issues in the region such as populism, anti-corruption, and support for human rights defenders.…
In June 2017, the World Movement hosted an event on human rights in Crimea with Tetiana Pechonchyk, Head of the Board of the Human Rights Information Centre (HRIC); Olga Skrypnyk, Head of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG); and members the international affairs community in Washington, DC. The event provided a firsthand update on the human rights…
Former UNSR on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai’s, final report demonstrates the positive impact civil society has made in communities around the world. Authoritarian governments around the world increasingly promote negative narratives of civil society by accusing it of being elitist, corrupt, or foreign agents; of supporting terrorism;…
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kaia, launches FOAA Online. In May 2017, former UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kaia, launched FOAA Online, which provides easily accessible legal arguments to assist lawyers, activists and…