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Enabling the Flow of Donations

The paper aims to empower CSOs, activists, donors, researchers and others to counter restrictions to international funding and advocate for a more enabling environment for CSOs' activities and impact.

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Participatory Democracies

Just launched: www.csometer.info

The new website assessing civil society environment in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries is now live.

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Participatory Democracies

Counter-Terrorism Impacts on Human Rights: This issue is like something in the water. It is affecting us all.

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Participatory Democracies

The Right to Free Assembly in the Balkans

The summary report identifies some areas of concern that will need further attention in the region, including the over bureaucratisation of the administrative procedures or the high levels of responsibilities for organizers.

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Participatory Democracies

New Comparative Briefer on Social Entrepreneurship

ECNL supports the development of a regulatory framework for social enterprises in Jamaica.

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Participatory Democracies

Italian law increases penalties related to protests and criminalises NGOs’ rescue of migrants at sea

The new law introduces harsher provisions regulating assemblies taking place in public places or private spaces open to the public.

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Participatory Democracies

How do security and counter-terrorism measures impact civil society space?

ECNL's briefer on the 2019 Human Rights Council report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

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Participatory Democracies

First draft of the General Comment on the right to peaceful assembly is now available

The draft incorporates some of main points of ECNL's previous submission. We continue supporting the drafting process, as we strongly believe that the GC will contribute to strengthening the safeguards for this fundamental right.

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Participatory Democracies

Ukrainian Constitutional Court Cancels Asset Declarations for Activists

This crucial development means that the 2017 discriminatory provisions requiring anti-corruption activists to publicly disclose information about their property and assets, are no longer in force in Ukraine.

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