CIVIL SOCIETY (23rd – 27th Feb. 2026)
| World NGO Day has often been a moment for celebration, an opportunity to recognize the role of civil society in responding to crises, advancing development, and standing alongside communities in the long work of change. This year feels different. World NGO Day 2026 arrives not as a routine milestone, but as an inflection point. https://shorturl.at/F70eX ; Nine out of 37 activists, who have been in pre-trial detention for nearly two years on incitement charges, were in court for their hearing on charges of incitement to disturb social order for allegedly planning a protest against the 20-year-old Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) agreement, which has since been scrapped. |
