The CIVICUS Monitor is an ongoing research collaboration between global civil society alliance CIVICUS and over 20 research partner organizations that have contributed the bulk of the data upon which this report is based. “People Power Under Attack 2020” shows that civic freedoms are under severe attack around the world, and a few of the study’s key findings include:

• A growing number of people are living in ‘closed’, ‘repressed’ and ‘obstructed’ countries
• Top violations involve detention of protesters, censorship and attacks on journalists
• Freedoms of speech, association and peaceful assembly deteriorated during COVID-19