| dc.description.abstract | This report presents key findings of research, carried out by CIVICUS,
the global civil society alliance, and informed by CIVICUS members
and stakeholders, on how civil society is being impacted upon and is
responding to anti-rights groups.
Anti-rights groups – non-state groups that position themselves as part
of civil society but attack fundamental and universal human rights – are
on the rise. Excluded groups – including women, young people, LGBTQI
people, people living with HIV/AIDS, religious minorities, Indigenous
peoples, ethnic and racial minorities, migrants and refugees – are feeling
the brunt of their attacks. Civil society that defends rights, particularly
the rights of excluded groups, is being targeted.
Anti-rights groups have risen in prominence and are now a key part ofthe
repression of civil society space – civic space – seen in most countries of
the world. In some contexts, civil society reports that their main threat
comes not from arms of the state but from anti-rights groups. | en_US |
