This year’s [CIVICUS'] State of Civil Society Report has launched with the declaration that we are undergoing a ‘global civic space emergency’...This year’s report focuses on how civil society and the private sector can work closely together. [In it] I tell the story of how All Out – one of the leading LGBT campaign groups – mobilised during the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014....All Out targeted their efforts on Coca Cola...This allowed for a simpler and more powerful message...Over one million people took part in actions during All Out’s campaign...the campaign...secured huge global attention for the situation of LGBTI community in Russia...and resulted in a change to the Olympic Charter...Within Coca Cola, it led to a real drive on LGBTI provisions within the company and led to them supporting equal marriage in the USA...