The Global Civil Society Summit in Belgrade, which BCSDN co-hosted together with the Civil Society Partnership for Effective Development (CPDE), CIVICUS and Action for Sustainable Development on April 8th, resulted with launching of an urgent Call to Action for Member States of the United Nations to address these issues on closing civic space in the context of the international community’s commitment to Agenda 2030. Read the Call to Action: A Civil Society Call to Stand Together to Defend Civic Space, Human Rights Defenders and Peoples’ Voices for a Just and Sustainable World here and endorse it by sending your organization’s name, country, and contact e-mail address to brian.t.tomlinson@gmail.com. More details and background for the Call to Action are available in the accompanying document Action Agenda: Positive Measures by Governments to Enable Civic Space towards Maximizing Civil Society Contributions to the SDGs available here
Source: BCSDN / CPDE