Help strengthen protection for university student activism worldwide

SAIH is launching a new global study on how universities protect student activism. We invite you to share experiences, practices, and initiatives that help safeguard students’ rights to speak out and organize, so we can strengthen protection for student activists worldwide.

Across the globe, student activists continue to play a vital role in defending human rights, democracy, and social justice. Yet in many places, they face intimidation, surveillance, disciplinary sanctions, and even criminalization for speaking out. As repression intensifies, the need to understand how student activists are being protected and what initiatives work are urgent.

SAIH is launching a new phase of our research on student activism. This year’s study focuses on the university initiatives to protect student activism, which help students resist repression and safeguard their rights within higher education and their wider networks.

To build a comprehensive picture, we are launching a Call for Evidence. The call aims to collect information about the formal and informal initiatives within universities and their networks that enable and safeguard students’ civic and political rights to express, assemble, and organize freely, without discrimination, intimidation, violence, or reprisal.

These may include actions taken by universities, student unions, staff and academics, civil society organizations, community groups, transnational networks or by students themselves

How to contribute

We invite students, activists, academics, civil society organizations, and anyone with relevant experience to complete our Call and provide information

Your insights will play a crucial role in strengthening efforts to protect student activists around the world.

Together, we can help ensure that campuses remain in spaces for free expression, critical inquiry, and democratic engagement!