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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&nbsp\;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&nbsp\;Tos
 ca Bruno-van Vijfeijken\, tmbruno@maxwell.syr.edu.Sponsoring Departments:&
 nbsp\;Transnational NGO Initiative\, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs&
 nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Restoring Civic Space for Civil Society - TNGO
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</p><p>
 Transnational NGO Initiative present</p><p><br></p><p><b>Restoring Civic S
 pace for Civil Society</b></p><p>A talk by Lana Baydas\,&nbsp\;Senior Fell
 ow \,Human Rights Initiative\, CSIS | Center for Strategic and\nInternatio
 nal Studies</p><p><br></p><p>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&nbsp\;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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Lunch will be served.</p><p><br></p><p>For more inf
 ormation\, please contact&nbsp\;Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken\, tmbruno@maxwe
 ll.syr.edu.</p><p>Sponsoring Departments:&nbsp\;Transnational NGO Initiati
 ve\, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs&nbsp\;</p>
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