Countering the Challenge of Closing Civic Space

Since 2012, 72 countries around the world have passed more than 144 pieces of legislation restricting civil society, according to a new report exploring how donors can effectively support civic space.

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The report, Effective Donor Responses to the Challenge of Closing Civic Space published by The International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), set out to examine what can be done to respond to and counter the closing civic space challenge more effectively.

It revealed there had been a “wave of civic space constraints – which is unlikely to recede soon”.

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