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Shifting policies for systemic change
This report “aims to unpack the various features and amplifiers of the COVID-19 emergency and its interlinkages with other crises, including the economic lockdown, increased job loss, hunger and homelessness...disparities of opportunity, wealth and power... racial and gender violence, discrimination... and escalating climate disasters” (Global Civil Society Report, 2020)
A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy
"Democracy and pluralism are under assault. Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world… As a result... Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom" (Freedom House 2020).
Advocacy in Restricted Spaces: A Toolkit for Civil Society
The Advocacy in Restricted Spaces toolkit is a practical resource that emphasizes that advocacy is possible even in highly restrictive contexts. (Freedom House, 2020).
Policy Recommendations: Freedom on the Net 2020
This report examines "how to foster a reliable and diverse information space, protect human rights from intrusive surveillance, and promote internet freedom" (Freedom House, 2020).
The Internationalization of Universities and the Repression of Academic Freedom
This report examines how "lucrative partnerships, foreign access, and expatriate academic networks create many opportunities – including a chance for authoritarian states to assert their influence across borders" (Furstenberg et al, 2020).
The Importance of Defending Diaspora Activism for Democracy and Human Rights
This report examines how "diaspora activism can be impactful. But transnational repression can deter, silence, and punish those who engage in the fight for rights from afar" (Moss 2020).
At Home and Abroad: Coercion-by-Proxy as a Tool of Transnational Repression
This report examines how "exile often means leaving loved ones and colleagues behind, sometimes at the mercy of governments who target them to gain leverage" (Adamson and Tsourapas, 2020).
The Digital Transnational Repression Toolkit, and Its Silencing Effects
This report examines how "digital tools make it easier than ever for authoritarian governments to control, silence, and punish dissent across borders" (Michaelsen, 2020).
Global Democracy and Covid-19: Upgrading International Support
“This report assesses the impact that Covid-19 is having on democracy around the world” and examines how international democracy support organisations and donors are responding to the challenges related to the pandemic and calls for a stronger and reformulated international democracy support” (Youngs and Panchulidze, 2020).
Common Ground
Common Ground "sits awkwardly but intentionally, between a seemingly distant past and a rather uncertain future. This moment softly echoes Robert Schuman’s appeal of May 9, 1950: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity." (European Cultural Foundation, 2020).
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