2.4: Civil Society
Empower individuals to exercise peacefully their rights of expression, association, and assembly. Other Information:
Our objective in this area is to empower individuals to exercise peacefully their rights of expression, association, and assembly,
including through their establishing and participating in NGOs, unions, and other civil society organizations. We will actively
protect and promote the right of individuals and civil society organizations to advocate their views and communicate with
their own members, with their own and other governments, international bodies, and other elements of civil society inside
or outside the countries in which they are based. We will seek to protect and promote access to objective information, including
through free, open, and independent media, and through new technologies, including the Internet. We will spotlight abuses
of civil society freedoms, denounce crackdowns on civil society and independent media, and publicly demonstrate our solidarity
with NGOs, labor unions, and journalists under threat. We will complement this diplomatic activity with foreign assistance
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