CIVICUS Monitor

🔎New Watchlist looks at deterioration of rights in:

🇮🇳Broad legal measures to jail activists
🇧🇫Military dismantles NGOs & political parties
🇧🇭Sweeping crackdown on dissent
🇬🇪Jail & heavy fines for protesters
🇪🇨Govt extends & expands emergency powers

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To mark 🔟 years of the CIVICUS Monitor, we've compiled a timeline of case studies showing how our research and ratings have been used:

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The research platform is powered by a global network of research partners. These 40+ stories show the impact of that collective effort:

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🇺🇸#USA: Civic freedoms are being chipped away piece by piece by the Trump administration. Students face deportation for their views, activists face surveillance, and civil society groups face sanctions.

A recent court ruling offers one rare victory amid the storm. Our latest country update amid #Midterms2026 elections: web.civicus.org/USANov26

🇵🇰#Pakistan: The state of #civicspace remains 'repressed'. Over the last two months, two #humanrights lawyers were re-arrested.

There were restrictions and repression ahead of a major opposition #protest and a wave of arrests following emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

#Journalists faced tightened checks, new restrictions on TV coverage, internet disruption and PECA cases

More here: web.civicus.org/PakistanOct2026

🇦🇺#Australia: Over the last two months, six #protesters were banned from protests around a defence conference in Western Australia. Protesters mobilising over the environment and climate policy have also been arrested.
More here: web.civicus.org/AustraliaOct20…