Thursday, January 17, 2019 SPACES FOR CHANGE | S4C SPACES FOR CHANGE | S4C is deeply concerned about the increasing clampdown on the civic space ahead of the 2019 general elections. The Nigerian civic space is witnessing the biggest crackdown in history, with international rights groups threatened with closure, media houses raided, social critics arrested, detained and facing bogus criminal charges…
The online database of closing civic spaces in Nigeria – www.closingspaces.org – has expanded its focus to include incidents of repressive governmental actions that narrow the space for the civil society in other parts of West Africa. The website now documents and reports the restrictions of civic space in the whole of West Africa: Benin,…
SPACES FOR CHANGE ‘s| S4C’s regional workshop, Promoting and Defending Internet Freedoms in Nigeria, held on September 5, 2018, brought together 35 online practitioners in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, to increase their capacity to push back against the increasing tide of restrictions on civic spaces often targeted at civil society actors operating in virtual, online and offline…
SPACES FOR CHANGE’s director, Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri, joined activists from Argentina, United States, Brazil, Philippines and India at a panel discussion on Reclaiming Civic Space: Resistance, Resilience and Resources held at New York University (NYU) on May 21, 2018. The panelists at the discussion are contributing authors to the 26th edition of the Sur International Journal on Human Rights (SUR 26), published…
Human rights activists and researchers from across the world came together at a Writers’ Retreat in Sao Paulo, Brazil to share ideas and strategies for confronting closing civic spaces. SPACES FOR CHANGE participated in the 7-day retreat. The participants are all working on the issue of reclaiming civic space in their respective countries, and are…