Assessment of civic space in Asia and the Pacific
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Assessment of civic space in Asia and the Pacific
Date
26 Mar 2019
Publisher
Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership
Copyright
© 2019 United Nations, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme
An assessment of 22 countries in Asia on a spectrum of civic space shows that 94 per cent of people live in countries with closed, repressed or obstructed civic spaces. The report rates 4 countries as “closed”, 6 as “repressed” and 10 “obstructed”. Even in some developed countries in the region, civic space is found to be “narrowed”, the second most open category after “open”.