{"id":35552,"date":"2025-03-10T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/us-added-to-international-watchlist-for-rapid-decline-in-civic-freedoms\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T01:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:47:50","slug":"us-added-to-international-watchlist-for-rapid-decline-in-civic-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/us-added-to-international-watchlist-for-rapid-decline-in-civic-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civicus.org\/\">Civicus<\/a>, an international non-profit organization dedicated to \u201cstrengthening citizen action and civil society around the world\u201d, announced the inclusion of the US on the non-profit\u2019s first watchlist of 2025 on Monday, alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/09\/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms. Civicus, an international non-profit organization dedicated to \u201cstrengthening citizen action &#8230; <a title=\"US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/us-added-to-international-watchlist-for-rapid-decline-in-civic-freedoms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}