The 2025 CIVICUS Global Findings report warns that civic freedoms are under severe pressure worldwide, with civil society facing escalating restrictions, new repressive laws and growing digital clampdowns, but also demonstrating resilience and securing important wins through mobilisation and advocacy. It notes that civil society space is now rated repressed or closed in a majority of countries, including several downgraded democracies such as France, Germany, Italy, the USA and Israel, while only a small minority retain genuinely open civic space, prompting CIVICUS to call for urgent action by governments, international bodies, donors and business to protect fundamental freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression.​

The Business and Human Rights Centre previously invited TotalEnergies to respond with reference to the 11 activists protesting EACOP arrested in February 2025; their response can be found here.

The Business and Human Rights Centre invited SEC Plating, Maersk and Lama Rubber Industries to respond to allegations; the responses of SEC Plating and Maersk can be found below, Lama Rubber Industries did not respond.