Action for Peace and Development (APD) strives to promote a peaceful, democratic and prosperous society in Burundi by engaging the youth and women as active participants in their political and civil society decision-making instances. In 2015, an active founder-member of Action for Peace and development participated in “The Next Generation for Democracy Movements in Africa”…
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…
UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Prof. Annalisa Ciampi, to speak at side event on expanding civic space within the United Nations during the United Nations Generally Assembly in New York in October 2017. As national governments across the world impose greater restrictions on the rights…