Direct Link to Full 86-Page 2023 CIVICUS Report: state-of-civil-society-report-2023_en.pdf (civicus.org)

Civil society puts immense efforts into engaging with the international system to try to secure ambitious international commitments and human rights norms, pushing for their domestication, monitoring state compliance and using the international machinery to investigate human rights abuses. But civil society remains at the back of the queue for access, with a system still built around states, dogged by narrow calculations of interest by government leaders and with an open door for powerful private sector interests. Without full civil society participation, global governance institutions are sure to keep falling short of their potential.

Source: WUNRN – 24.10.2023