This blog originally appeared in Alliance magazine. Amid a global surge in far-right and conservative movements, socio-environmental protections and human rights are facing unprecedented setbacks. In Brazil and beyond, this political shift is fueling a rollback of hard-won rights, intensifying attacks on marginalized groups, criminalizing civil society organizations, shrinking civic space, and triggering a sharp decline in international funding for advocacy and social justice efforts. Financing cuts to social and humanitarian aid have put organizations at a crisis point, as the measures taken immediately after President Trump’s inauguration interrupted, partially or entirely froze the operations of multilateral organizations such as the WHO...
This blog originally appeared in Alliance magazine. Amid a global surge in far-right and conservative movements, socio-environmental protections and human rights are facing unprecedented setbacks. In Brazil and beyond, this political shift is fueling a rollback of hard-won rights, intensifying attacks...