Submitted by CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation on 4 February, 2011 - 17:04
CIVICUS is and we hope to see you there!
This is an open invitation to all our members, partners and friends to participate in a workshop/ open space event, titled "The Space for Civil Society: Global Trends."
CIVICUS and other leading civil society groups have observed an increase in the shrinking of the space in which civil society operates. In 2009 and 2010, CIVICUS observed a growing number of restrictions on civil society in about 90 countries. This trend has been acknowledged by the Secretary General of the United Nations and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, as well as other key human rights organisations and activists around the world. The clampdown on civil society is real and it poses a huge threat to social movements, preventing them from achieving their objectives and reducing atrocities world wide. At the end of 2010, CIVICUS concluded a study on the challenges faced by women in civil society in Africa, which contributed to this negative and worrying conclusion. The study was based on direct inputs gathered from female human rights defenders and organisations working on women's rights across the continent, as well as extensive desk research performed to showcase these concerns. CIVICUS will therefore be leading an open space, workshop event at the World Social Forum, with its members, partners, friends and interested parties in order to discuss these increasingly problematic issues and negative concerns.
The CIVICUS workshop will therefore focus on the following:
1) Investigation into the practical and policy orientated restrictions and limitations affecting civil society's ability to freely carry out its activities. This will be done through a discussion on the CIVICUS "Civil Society: the Clampdown is Real: Global Trends 2009-2010" report.
2) A presentation and discussions on the findings of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) on findings on the external environment in which civil society operates, and implications this data holds.
3) A presentation and discussions on the environment in which Women Human Rights Defenders operate in Africa.
4) Advocacy strategies, solidarity alliances and coalition building for a global campaign to improve civil society space, as well as to actively to seek out solutions.
Please send an email to David Kode, CIVICUS Policy Officer, Email:david.kode@civicus.org or Megan MacGarry CIVICUS Convening Officer, Email:megan.macgarry@civicus.org if you plan to take part in these discussions.
Thanks and See You in Dakar
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Thanks for sharing your plans for the World Social Forum coming up in Dakar. I've promoted this post to the Kabissa frontpage and will highlight it in next Tuesday's Gong Gong member newsletter.
For those looking for ways to get involved, check out also the World Social Forum 2011 Dakar website as well as the WSF Extended website which aims to help involve people in WSF through the Internet from where they are.
If you do participate in WSF or have news/outcomes to report from your WSF activities relevant to African civil society feel free to post here and use the WSF tag.
Warm regards,
Tobias
many thanks for your kind invitation from jessica hume fromm civicus
to n the comingg workshop please accept our interest to perticipate
kindly end us more deatails
uganda association for social economic progress
peter kiwumulo
head and director of programs
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Jessica Hume <***@***.***> wrote:
> CIVICUS is and we hope to see you there!
>
>
>
> This is an open invitation to all our members, partners and friends to
> participate in a workshop/ open space event, titled "The Space for Civil
> Society: Global Trends."
>
> CIVICUS and other leading civil society groups have observed an increase in
> the shrinking of the space in which civil society operates. In 2009 and
> 2010, CIVICUS observed a growing number of restrictions on civil society in
> about 90 countries. This trend has been acknowledged by the Secretary
> General of the United Nations and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
> Defenders, as well as other key human rights organisations and activists
> around the world. The clampdown on civil society is real and it poses a huge
> threat to social movements, preventing them from achieving their objectives
> and reducing atrocities world wide. At the end of 2010, CIVICUS concluded a
> study on the challenges faced by women in civil society in Africa, which
> contributed to this negative and worrying conclusion. The study was based on
> direct inputs gathered from female human rights defenders and organisations
> working on women's rights across the continent, as well as extensive desk
> research performed to showcase these concerns. CIVICUS will therefore be
> leading an open space, workshop event at the World Social Forum, with its
> members, partners, friends and interested parties in order to discuss these
> increasingly problematic issues and negative concerns.
>
>
>
> The CIVICUS workshop will therefore focus on the following:
>
> 1) Investigation into the practical and policy orientated restrictions and
> limitations affecting civil society's ability to freely carry out its
> activities. This will be done through a discussion on the CIVICUS "Civil
> Society: the Clampdown is Real: Global Trends 2009-2010" report.
>
> 2) A presentation and discussions on the findings of the CIVICUS Civil
> Society Index (CSI) on findings on the external environment in which civil
> society operates, and implications this data holds.
>
> 3) A presentation and discussions on the environment in which Women Human
> Rights Defenders operate in Africa.
>
> 4) Advocacy strategies, solidarity alliances and coalition building for a
> global campaign to improve civil society space, as well as to actively to
> seek out solutions.
>
> Please send an email to David Kode, CIVICUS Policy Officer,
> Email:***@***.*** or Megan MacGarry CIVICUS Convening Officer,
> Email:***@***.*** if you plan to take part in these
> discussions.
>
> Thanks and See You in Dakar
>
> --
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Hi Dear All CIVICUS
I do wonder why the civil societies are very surprised and concerned
about the Egyptian crisis yet never considered about the thousands of
lives always getting lost in the amid of the continued conflicts in
Somalia. The civil societies do suffer in Somalia for the sake of
their duty of getting those felt to be in siege back to board focussed
life. We do always face intimidations from the various conflicting
parties in the country but I never saw the world determining the
situation we are going through.
Thanx
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On 2/11/11, Kiwumulo Peter <***@***.***> wrote:
> many thanks for your kind invitation from jessica hume fromm civicus
> to n the comingg workshop please accept our interest to perticipate
> kindly end us more deatails
>
> uganda association for social economic progress
> peter kiwumulo
> head and director of programs
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Jessica Hume <***@***.***>
> wrote:
>> CIVICUS is and we hope to see you there!
>>
>>
>>
>> This is an open invitation to all our members, partners and friends to
>> participate in a workshop/ open space event, titled "The Space for Civil
>> Society: Global Trends."
>>
>> CIVICUS and other leading civil society groups have observed an increase
>> in
>> the shrinking of the space in which civil society operates. In 2009 and
>> 2010, CIVICUS observed a growing number of restrictions on civil society
>> in
>> about 90 countries. This trend has been acknowledged by the Secretary
>> General of the United Nations and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human
>> Rights
>> Defenders, as well as other key human rights organisations and activists
>> around the world. The clampdown on civil society is real and it poses a
>> huge
>> threat to social movements, preventing them from achieving their
>> objectives
>> and reducing atrocities world wide. At the end of 2010, CIVICUS concluded
>> a
>> study on the challenges faced by women in civil society in Africa, which
>> contributed to this negative and worrying conclusion. The study was based
>> on
>> direct inputs gathered from female human rights defenders and
>> organisations
>> working on women's rights across the continent, as well as extensive desk
>> research performed to showcase these concerns. CIVICUS will therefore be
>> leading an open space, workshop event at the World Social Forum, with its
>> members, partners, friends and interested parties in order to discuss
>> these
>> increasingly problematic issues and negative concerns.
>>
>>
>>
>> The CIVICUS workshop will therefore focus on the following:
>>
>> 1) Investigation into the practical and policy orientated restrictions and
>> limitations affecting civil society's ability to freely carry out its
>> activities. This will be done through a discussion on the CIVICUS "Civil
>> Society: the Clampdown is Real: Global Trends 2009-2010" report.
>>
>> 2) A presentation and discussions on the findings of the CIVICUS Civil
>> Society Index (CSI) on findings on the external environment in which civil
>> society operates, and implications this data holds.
>>
>> 3) A presentation and discussions on the environment in which Women Human
>> Rights Defenders operate in Africa.
>>
>> 4) Advocacy strategies, solidarity alliances and coalition building for a
>> global campaign to improve civil society space, as well as to actively to
>> seek out solutions.
>>
>> Please send an email to David Kode, CIVICUS Policy Officer,
>> Email:***@***.*** or Megan MacGarry CIVICUS Convening Officer,
>> Email:***@***.*** if you plan to take part in these
>> discussions.
>>
>> Thanks and See You in Dakar
>>
>> --
>> Full post: http://www.kabissa.org/blog/are-you-going-world-social-forum
>> Manage my subscriptions:
>> http://www.kabissa.org/og_mailinglist/subscriptions
>> Stop emails for this post:
>> http://www.kabissa.org/og_mailinglist/unsubscribe/5090
>>
>
> --
> Full post: http://www.kabissa.org/blog/are-you-going-world-social-forum
> Manage my subscriptions: http://www.kabissa.org/og_mailinglist/subscriptions
> Stop emails for this post:
> http://www.kabissa.org/og_mailinglist/unsubscribe/5090
>
>
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Ahmed Guray Gulleed
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Action Against Human Tragedy (AAHT)
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