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Joining forces to protect civic space

FRA contributed to the spring session of the Council of Europe’s Conference of International NGOs (CINGO) in Strasbourg on 7-8 April. Participants discussed civic space challenges and how to address them.

FRA was also invited to exchange with the recently created CINGO task force on civic space. At the session, CINGO adopted a Recommendation on the shrinking Civic Space and actual political developments

The Conference and the task force expressed great interest in cooperating with FRA and other key civic space actors more closely going forward.