What is the role of civil society in multilateral spaces? What is at stake for civic space under the UN80 reforms?
As we reflected on Human Rights Day and Human Rights Defenders Day—symbols of both global progress and persistent struggles to uphold human rights—the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Geneva Office and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) convened a High-Level Conference examining the impact of the UN80 Initiative on civil society participation.
This is the virtual message delivered by H.E. Ambassador Gustavo Gallón, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the UN in Geneva, for this occasion.
