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Civil society humanizes us, seeks to control our excesses

The last fifteen years have been characterised by a global assault on democratic and human rights values, unprecedented since the end of the Cold War.

This assault has seen the demonisation of democratic values, rise of autocrats, increase in racism, xenophobia, and misogyny, and re-emergence of intolerance against those different from “us”.

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