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International Civil Society Week 2019

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Alejandra Agudo

“La solidaridad es la mejor protección de los defensores de los derechos humanos” ("Solidarity is the best protection for human rights defenders")
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/09/planeta_futuro/1554806336_403028.html

¿Ha llegado el momento en el que los jóvenes cambian el mundo? (Has the time come when young people change the world?)
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/15/planeta_futuro/1555327738_624111.html

Marsha, de Pussy Riot: “Es necesario elegir no callar”
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/11/planeta_futuro/1554975020_458314.html

Vishal Manve

India's elections are right around the corner — and the fake news problem is not going away
https://globalvoices.org/2019/03/29/indias-elections-are-right-around-the-corner-and-the-fake-news-problem-is-not-going-away/

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina: ‘Even in Russia, social media is still an effective method for uniting people’
https://globalvoices.org/2019/05/13/pussy-riots-maria-alyokhina-even-in-russia-social-media-is-still-an-effective-method-for-uniting-people/

Kashmir is an information black hole for the United Nations: Rapporteur for human rights - Michael Forst
https://freepresskashmir.com/2019/04/16/kashmir-is-an-information-black-hole-for-the-united-nations-rapporteur-for-human-rights-michael-first/

How young activists assembled at the European Youth Capital to discuss gender, LGBTIQ inclusivity, and persecution
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/international-civil-society-week/how-young-activists-assembled-european-youth-capital-discuss-gender-lgbtiq-inclusivity-and-persecution/

Proud of Period's Oscar win, want to perform In India: Russian feminist band Pussy Riot
https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-proud-of-period-s-oscar-win-want-to-perform-in-india-russian-feminist-band-pussy-riot-2742344

Alecia McKenzie

Civil Society Leaders Meet Amid Protests, Attacks on Rights
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/civil-society-leaders-meet-amid-protests-attacks-rights/

Smears, Laws, Lack of Cooperation: Tools Against Activists
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/smears-laws-lack-cooperation-tools-activists/?%20utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smears-laws-lack-cooperation-tools-activists

No Story Worth Dying For?
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/no-story-worth-dying/

When Youth Take on The Fight to Defend Rights
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/youth-take-fight-defend-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=youth-take-fight-defend-rights

Activists spotlight education for development and rights
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/activists-spotlight-education-development-rights/

Hana Srebotnjak

The alarming state of civic space in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sudan and Venezuela: a global trend
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/international-civil-society-week/alarming-state-civic-space-afghanistan-saudi-arabia-serbia-sudan-and-venezuela-global-trend/

Why Catalan feminists should focus on sorority not independence
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/why-feminists-should-focus-sorority-and-not-independence/

“All as One – 1 out of 5 million”: Serbian protesters mobilise against growing authoritarian rule
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/international-civil-society-week/all-as-one-1-out-of-5-million-serbian-protesters-mobilise-against-growing-authoritarian-rule/

#metoo in the East? Women's rights in south-Eastern and Eastern Europe
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/international-civil-society-week/metoo-east-womens-rights-south-eastern-and-eastern-europe/

Mythili Sampathkumar

Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina talks hope, history, activism, and the “New Cold War”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/pussy-riot-masha-alyokhina-hope-history-activism-new-cold-war

For India’s youth, these elections are about more than party politics
http://fortune.com/2019/05/22/india-election-2019-modi-gandhi/

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number of countries with closed, repressed or obstructed civic space
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number of human rights defenders killed in 2017 for their peaceful work (Source: DefendDefenders)