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Protecting Civic Space: Pushing Back Against Post-Pandemic Authoritarian Governance

Name: Protecting Civic Space: Pushing Back Against Post-Pandemic Authoritarian Governance
Start: 2023-09-02T14:00:00+07:00
End: 2023-09-02T15:30:00+07:00

2 September 2023 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM BMT

The emergency measures imposed by governments across ASEAN during the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively impacted human rights and democracy in the region, leading to the shrinking of civic spaces and repression of civic space. Although most of these measures were publicly meant for public health and safety, government in practice used these to curb civic freedoms and consolidated more powers to themselves.

In the post-pandemic era, join Asia Centre’s panel ‘Protecting Civic Space: Pushing Back Against Post-Pandemic Authoritarian Governance’ during ACSC/APF 2023 in Jakarta, Thailand, to discuss the ways forward for civil society actors to promote and protect civic space.

Date: 2 September 2023
Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

Presentations by:
– James Gomez
– Marc Piñol Rovira
– Nukila Evanty
– Ekmongkhon Puridej

Details

Date:: 2 September 2023
Time:: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM BMT
Event Category:: Event

Asia Centre is a social enterprise that serves as a think-tank, convenes meetings and undertakes projects through collaborative partnerships.

It established its first centre in 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand whose activities focus on human rights issues in the region.

In 2018, Asia Centre established a second centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia with a focus on arts and culture.

Asia Centre provides advisory and consultancy services for educational institutions, international organizations, non-profit organizations and other institutions in the private and public sector. It conducts research, publishes its findings, organises events and runs capacity building programmes.