 Meanwhile, civil society organisations in Algeria have called for the amendment of the nation's controversial countenance and Allied Matters Act 2020 as known as KAMER Act. The executive director of Global Rights, Abiodo Bayi, was speaking at an event organised by the International Human Rights Watch Dark. Global Rights with the theme the KAMER shrinking our square critical dialogue said that the review KAMER Act restricts CSOs and NGOs both incorporated as a non-profit organisations act by all members of civil society organisations in Algeria to challenge sections of the act that are problematic and work towards proposing amendments in the future. The NGO bill was also an effort at doing exactly the same thing. So there's been a concerted, consistent, deliberate effort to incapacitate civil society, render it so incapable that they do not become a force, an alternative to political voices that are active. So if you're then in a situation in which the political opposition is weak, the citizens are mostly popularised and impoverished and therefore their concern really is for what they eat on a day-to-day basis. And the civic space of active, organised civic sector is itself endangered. Organised labour is discredited and bereft of money. What you have is an authoritarian state and that's where we're headed. As of 2020, as a lot of, while it's a very good law for the business sector, for the profit-making sector, it is very restrictive on civil society organisations. That would include of course NGOs, churches, mosques, mesusu groups and everybody incorporated as a non-profit under the CAC. And it's our duty to collectively think about these issues and challenge them and that is what we're trying to do here today. For example, how does there are so many subjective sections to the comma? And those objective sections means that the companies and the corporate affairs commission can at any time step in to an organisation as long as politically exposed people are not happy with the organisation, which will make accountability more difficult. And as the 2023 elections approach us, we need as a society to also begin to ask for politicians who will be respectful of our civic space, who will seek to build a society in which the voice of the people can be heard rather than suppressed and that is what this meeting is about.