STATE OF CIVIL SOCIETY REPORT

The fundamental inequalities of climate change – CLIMATE: REPRESSION AS DENIAL disproportionately caused by the richest people in the richest countries but with the worst consequences for the world’s The climate crisis is a global emergency with immediate and poorest – aren’t being addressed. [...] Many states are collapsing the space for climate activism, including in global At the global level, civil society forced the need to cut fossil north countries with vibrant climate movements where the right fuel emissions onto the agenda of the COP28 climate summit, to speak out used to be respected. [...] The The direction of travel is shown by the fact that civic space is in Taliban strengthened its grip in Afghanistan, theocracy its worst state since the launch of the CIVICUS Monitor’s global reasserted itself in Iran and the global femicide pandemic coverage in 2018. [...] The need to end the carnage is immediate – but even after a ceasefire the impacts So many people in so many parts of the world can’t take the will be felt for decades, from a generational trauma to heal to basics of life for granted. [...] The government wants to present the conflict as resolved and turn the page with the international community.