If you are working on democracy, human rights, equality, social justice or land rights and climate, you know that the crackdown on civic space and freedoms under the guise of security is impacting your work.
This moment and this challenge demand a bolder, more ambitious response from the funding community.
While we continue to channel critical support to activists who are being harassed and persecuted, we need more collaboration between funders willing to take risks and test new approaches. We have to do upstream work and not just rush in when activists are already being threatened and arrested.
Credit: Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos. Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil.
