Civil society re-thinking civic spaces (in Spanish)
En Octubre de 2020, la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de ForumCiv desarrolló el foro virtual Sociedad Civil “Repensando los espacios cívicos”, como un espacio de diálogo e...
En Octubre de 2020, la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de ForumCiv desarrolló el foro virtual Sociedad Civil “Repensando los espacios cívicos”, como un espacio de diálogo e...
ForumCiv has been running the Somali diaspora program since 2012, and from 2016 the Swedish-Somali Business Development Programme (SSBP). To implement the programmes, ForumCiv established country...
Read more about future changes within the programme.
The signing of the 2016 peace agreement, between the Colombian government and the FARC guerilla, drew a formal end to one of the world’s longest internal conflicts. What happened next?
The Artivism Challenge 2020 seeks to recognise emerging art, media and cultural actors employing innovative advocacy mechanisms to address the rising challenges to democracy, human rights and gender...
In Eastern Europe, the year 2020 has been very eventful, with the ongoing protests in Belarus, the first women elected president in Moldova and war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh...
The third webinar in the Glocal Voices series focuses on how climate change contributes to conflict. What does this mean for communities on the ground? How are communities around the world responding...
In Liberia, like in most parts of the world, land is an important determinant of one’s heritage and dignity, without which self-determination and peaceful coexistence are threatened. Land serves as a...
Weeks go by and the Belarusian society keeps fighting for the right to be respected. Every weekend, more than 100,000 citizens come together in peaceful protests. With small acts of civil disobedience...
In a new report, ForumCiv calls on the Swedish government to adopt a legislation that requires companies to respect human rights in their own operations and in all their business relationships.
A chronicle about the Landscapes of Memory, a memory site created in a terrain where CONAVIGUA found buried bodies of disappeared people. Now it has become an important site of reparation...
For Lebanese, the massive explosion that rocked the harbour in Beirut is way more than an ordinary disaster that happens now and then. Not only did it occur amid a resurgent global pandemic but also...
ForumCiv and Wajibu Wetu Programme partners PAWA254, Siasa Place, Buni Media, and African Uncensored, will jointly commemorate the Democracy week with a series of week-long activities on Monday 14th...
On Thursday 10th of September 2020, ForumCiv will be coordinating a webinar with members of the Swedish Network for Eastern Partnership and Russia on the current situation in Belarus. The purpose is...
Despite the 2016 peace agreement, Colombia remains the deadliest country for human rights defenders. Today, the concern on the impacts of Covid-19 is eclipsed by another virulent phenomena, making...
Ahead of the extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting over Belarus, Swedish civil society organisations are raising their voice to support the people in Belarus. The statement is directed to support...
Presidential elections are always a time of uncertainty, even in Belarus where president Lukashenko rules as ultimate power. For the first time in Belarus, the regime had serious opponents in the...
On Thursday 6th August 2020, ForumCiv will be delivering the second version of Glocal Voices, an international webinar where we bring local voices to a global context, with the purpose of promoting...
We are launching a new edition of our methodology to encourage the power and capacity of communities, Right(s) Way Forward. To better grasp how the tool came into existence we asked Wilson James...
New challenges and opportunities for the civil society in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic.