International Civil Society Week Journalist Fellowship 2025 (Funded to Bangkok) – YOA

Deadline: September 14, 2025

Applications are open for the International Civil Society Week Journalist Fellowship 2025. Journalists from world wide are invited to apply to a newly launched fellowship to attend the International Civil Society Week (ICSW). The occasion can be held in Bangkok, Thailand, 1-5 November 2025 organised by CIVICUS international civil society alliance and Asia Democracy Network (ADN).

ICSW is the world’s largest civil society gathering, bringing collectively hundreds of civil society activists from world wide. CIVICUS alliance is made up of over 15,000 members in over 175 international locations. Along with its predecessor, the CIVICUS World Assemblies, ICSW has a proud historical past of practically 30 years following its 1995 debut in Mexico City. The most up-to-date occasions had been held on-line in 2020/21 and in Belgrade, Serbia in 2019.

ICSW 2025 will present an open house for international civil society organizations, activists, human rights defenders, and allies by per week-lengthy sequence of conferences, workshops, trainings, and cultural occasions. The occasion comes at a time when civic freedoms are being curtailed in most international locations, with civil society underneath extreme assault in 116 of 198 international locations and territories.

Benefits

• CIVICUS will prepare journey and canopy prices to attend ICSW in Bangkok, the place fellows may have alternatives to meet and interview civil society activists from across the globe.
• In addition to attending ICSW occasions, together with a reception for fellows, chosen fellows are anticipated to publish no less than two tales in any format associated to ICSW and civic freedoms, based mostly on their reporting throughout the week.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists from world wide.
• The Fellowship has two classes: the Journalist Fellowship and the Young Journalist Fellowship:
  • The Journalist Fellowship is open to journalists of any age with a demonstrated curiosity in civic house and human rights points and a powerful portfolio of labor.
  • The Young Journalist Fellowship is for journalists underneath 30, together with citizen journalists and those that cowl and create sturdy engagement on rights points on digital media platforms.

Application

Applications are due by September 14, with fellows chosen and notified by early October. They strongly encourage journalists from Global Majority international locations to apply.

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For extra data, go to ICSW Journalist Fellowship.