BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global AffairsTransnational NGO Initiativ e presentRestoring Civic Space for Civil SocietyA talk by Lana Baydas\,&nb sp\;Senior Fellow \,Human Rights Initiative\, CSIS | Center for Strategic and\nInternational StudiesAround the world\,\ngovernments are using a vari ety of approaches to limit the space for civil\nsociety to operate. These range from controlling the media\, creating onerous\nregistration requirem ents\, and passing restrictive legislation to cut off\nforeign funding\, t o depriving human rights activists of their nationality\,\ndetaining civil society leaders\, and in some cases\, engaging in targeted\nkillings. Thi s includes some countries that\, until recently\, were considered\nconsoli dated democracies. Lana Baydas\, Senior Fellow at the Center for\nStrategi c and International Studies (CSIS)\, will discuss the \;major threats\ nand drivers of closing civic space\, as well as key responses and strateg ies\nalready underway to make civil society more resilient and sustainable .Lana Baydas is a senior\nfellow with the CSIS Human Rights Initiative. Pr ior to joining CSIS\, she worked\nas both an academic and a practitioner i n the fields of human rights\, gender\nequality\, development\, and intern ational humanitarian law for the last 16 years\,\nholding posts with the U nited Nations\, Crisis Action\, the International\nCommittee of the Red Cr oss\, and the American University in Cairo. She holds a\nPh.D. and LL.M. i n public international law from the University of Glasgow in\nScotland and a B.A. in political science from the American University of Beirut\nin Le banon.Lunch will be served.For more information\, please contact \;Tos ca Bruno-van Vijfeijken\, tmbruno@maxwell.syr.edu.Sponsoring Departments:& nbsp\;Transnational NGO Initiative\, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs& nbsp\; DTEND:20181002T170000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T132450Z DTSTART:20181002T153000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Restoring Civic Space for Civil Society - TNGO UID:RFCALITEM638473010906741617 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Transnational NGO Initiative present
Restoring Civic S pace for Civil Society
A talk by Lana Baydas\, \;Senior Fell ow \,Human Rights Initiative\, CSIS | Center for Strategic and\nInternatio nal Studies
Around the world\,\ngovernments are using a v ariety of approaches to limit the space for civil\nsociety to operate. The se range from controlling the media\, creating onerous\nregistration requi rements\, and passing restrictive legislation to cut off\nforeign funding\ , to depriving human rights activists of their nationality\,\ndetaining ci vil society leaders\, and in some cases\, engaging in targeted\nkillings. This includes some countries that\, until recently\, were considered\ncons olidated democracies. Lana Baydas\, Senior Fellow at the Center for\nStrat egic and International Studies (CSIS)\, will discuss the \;major threa ts\nand drivers of closing civic space\, as well as key responses and stra tegies\nalready underway to make civil society more resilient and sustaina ble.
Lana Baydas is a senior\nfellow with the CSIS Human Rights Init iative. Prior to joining CSIS\, she worked\nas both an academic and a prac titioner in the fields of human rights\, gender\nequality\, development\, and international humanitarian law for the last 16 years\,\nholding posts with the United Nations\, Crisis Action\, the International\nCommittee of the Red Cross\, and the American University in Cairo. She holds a\nPh.D. a nd LL.M. in public international law from the University of Glasgow in\nSc otland and a B.A. in political science from the American University of Bei rut\nin Lebanon.
Lunch will be served.
For more inf ormation\, please contact \;Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken\, tmbruno@maxwe ll.syr.edu.
Sponsoring Departments: \;Transnational NGO Initiati ve\, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;
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