Sustaining Civic Space in Times of COVID-19: Global Trends

Read GIGA's report 'Sustaining Civic Space in Times of COVID-19: Global Trends'.

Autocrats worldwide have exploited COVID-19 and corresponding legal 
measures to curtail civil liberties. However, the health crisis and related 
socio-economic setbacks have also created needs-induced space, leading to a rise of civil society relief activism and propelling protests against dissatisfactory government responses. Rather than uniformly shrinking, civic space has often been sustained during the pandemic.

This report assesses:

• Attacks on civic space
• Civic space in light of COVID-19 related legal restrictions,
• Needs-induced civic space,
• Protests and civic space,
• Relief efforts and civic space,
• What can be done

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