People Power Under Attack 2024

The annual report, People Power Under Attack, rates the state of civic space conditions based on data collected throughout the year from country-focused civil society organisations, regionally-based research teams, international human rights indices and the CIVICUS Monitor's in-house experts. The data from these sources are combined to assign each country and territory a rating as either open, narrowed, obstructed, repressed or closed.

Rights Reversed: A downward shift in civic space

Historical report looks at seven key trends from 2019 to 2023:

1. Rise in the closure of civic space worldwide
2. Repression in Africa south of the Sahara and MENA
3. Civic space challenges in Europe
4. Detentions and arrests of protesters
5. COVID-19 pandemic and civic space
6. Prosecution of activists
7. Restrictive laws to silence dissent