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COVID-19 as a Threat to Civic Spaces Around the World
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
PUBLISHED: APRIL 1, 2020
As countries across the globe are desperately trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapidly increasing number of governments have started to impose severe restrictions on core civic freedoms. Although restrictions are currently necessary to save lives and protect health care from overburdening, these emergency measures must be proportional and strictly limited in time. It is crucial to monitor how restrictions are implemented to prevent governments from using the current crisis to justify new constraints on civic spaces, which have already been shrinking in many places during the last 15 years. Read the full post on the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt blog here.
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