Matter for Civil Soceity Interest : The CIVICUS Report

Studying the CIVICUS 2026 state of civil society report, I feel that each and every NGO who feel or work for civic rights should read this report.

It’s a well crafted report, nothing emotional, very realistic and nothing in partisan politics.

Nine sections, started with Overview

Resistance Against the Tide and ended with the section Gen Z Protests : New Resistance Rises. It is obscure to me that why Bangladesh Gen Z July 36 hardly highlighted.

Rest of the seven sections are very interesting, Democracy: An Enduring Aspiration, Technology: Innovation Without Accountability, Global Governance: Power Politics Tests Global Rules, Conflict: Impunity Unchecked, Climate : Between Breakdown to Breakthrough, Migration: Cruelty As Policy, and Gender Rights : Rollback and Resistance. Formulation of title is so impressive that the second part says the reality.

Two sections are so important from my own Bangladeshi perspective, we have to do campaign to unhindered accountability of technology / ICT, greedy innovations of these ICT companies especially the social media addiction will spoil our new emerging generations. The last but not least, we have to invest in our Gen Z the youth. It is not on creating employment only but also democracy, freedom of information, diversity and equality, and internationalism.

We urge especially our leaders in Asia Pacific, especially while we meet each year in December in Bangkok, in RHPW ie Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week to study the report, sensitize on the analysis and to organize all of us in this regard, for greater movement.