– Statement by the RISE Network, published on 18 August 2021, available here. We the RISE network, Refugees’ Ideas & Solutions for Europe, as an alliance of migrant and refugee led non-governmental organisations and associations, representing tens of thousands of people across Europe, urge all world leaders to give protection…
On 22 July, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to liquidate over 50 NGOs in Belarus. This comes after Lukashenko vowed to continue what he called a “mopping-up operation” against civil society activists who he denounced as “bandits and foreign agents”. This is the government’s latest move in a relentless and systematic crackdown on…
Image: Screenshot from NBC news, Belarus rights Activist, Jana Showstak. Event: Monday 9 August 2021, 10:00-12:30 On 23 May 2021, the Lukashenko regime forced Ryan Air Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk and the arrested Roman Protasevic and Sofia Sapega. Belarus activist Jana Showstak This act was immediately condemned by the EU and others as an…
On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published the second rule of law report covering events taking place in 2020 and early 2021. The report maintains the same methodology adopted in the previous one, looking narrowly at only four elements: the justice system, the anti-corruption framework, media pluralism and other institutional issues related to checks…
20 years ago, a movement of protest and proposal, organized on a global scale, took to the streets of Genova alongside the G8. It was the continuation of the reflections started in Seattle in 1999. It was the birth of a so-called movement of movements – a social movement converging many mobilisations and demands around…
Appeal by Genoa 2021 coalition, published on 20 May, available here. Twenty years after the G8 in Genoa. Without memory there is no future: we feel the duty, as well as the right, to remember that important piece of the history of social movements, all the more because it is a still open wound.…
PRESS RELEASE – 13 July 2021 L’UNION DES SANS-PAPIERS RECEIVES CIVIC PRIDE AWARD FROM EUROPEAN CIVIC FORUM Version française Around 500 undocumented people have occupied the Beguinage church and sites at ULB and VUB Brussels universities for over 5 months. Over 430 undocumented people have been on hunger strike since 23 May 2021. Despite…
Photo credit for France visual: DR Alain P. We are delighted to announce the winners of our Civic Pride Awards for 2021! Our annual Civic Pride award recognises outstanding civic initiatives in Europe, showcasing the actions of civic actors, raising their visibility at the European level, and encouraging convergences between their struggles. To celebrate their…
The European Civic Forum is raising the alarm on France. While fundamental freedoms are protected by the law and generally respected, civil liberties have been put under increasing pressure since 2015 following the state of emergency introduced in after the terrorist attacks. Two laws (Loi pour une sécurité globale, Projet de loi confortant le respect…
8 June 2021 IMMEDIATE RELEASE French Separatism Bill threatens fundamental freedoms, warn civil society organisations The proposed French « separatism » bill («Projet de loi confortant le respect des principes de la République») could threaten rights and civil liberties, according to French and European civil society organisations including CIVICUS, the European Civic Forum…