The 2025 CIVICUS Monitor for the Americas places Saint Kitts and Nevis among the region’s stronger performers on civic freedoms, awarding the country a score of 90 and classifying it as having an open civic space.

The CIVICUS Monitor is a global research platform that assesses the conditions under which people participate in civil society. It measures civic freedoms, specifically the freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of peaceful assembly. These are rights that allow individuals and organisations to speak freely, form groups, protest, advocate, and participate in public life without fear of intimidation or retaliation.

Saint Kitts and Nevis’ 2025 rating reflects an environment where citizens, media, faith-based groups and civil society organisations are generally able to operate openly and engage in national discourse. This performance is consistent with previous years, even as civic space across the Americas continues to shrink.

Regionally, only 10 of 35 countries are rated open in 2025, with nearly 90 per cent of the population living in countries where these freedoms are restricted. Nations such as the United States and Argentina were downgraded to being obstructed while Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela remain classified as closed.

Against this regional decline, Saint Kitts and Nevis stands out for its continued protection of core civic freedoms.