Keep Civic Space Healthy: Saving Lives and Human Rights
Joint ECNL/ICNL briefer on what states must and must not do when responding to COVID-19.
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Supporting advocacy for the right to free assembly in the Balkans and the Eastern Partnership region.
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COVID-19 Responses – Why we need to protect the human right to assemble and act online
The European and global bodies must do so through an elevation of our online gatherings and other online freedoms to the same standards of respect, protection and facilitation as those we conduct in physical spaces.
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Safeguarding Online Assemblies
This paper aims to support developing a broader understanding of how assembly organisers, civil society groups and networks are using the online world as part of their activism, and how both state and private sector actors respond to this.
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What can states do to promote participation in public affairs?
ECNL prepared a comprehensive and easy-to-use summary of the OHCHR's new guidelines on promoting participation.
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What can states do to promote participation in public affairs?
ECNL prepared a comprehensive and easy-to-use summary of the OHCHR's new guidelines on promoting participation.
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Responsible AI: ECNL contributes to Europe-wide regulatory standards
ECNL and CINGO encourage global and regional AI regulation to prioritise important issues regarding human rights.
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How can EU law safeguard civic space and the right to privacy? We are one step forward.
Read our blog on recent rules that have put CSOs’ and donors’ right to privacy under attack and what ECNL does to help and defend civic space.
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Counter-terrorism soft law, hard consequences
Are you interested in learning how soft law regulations on counter-terrorism impact human rights? And how regional and global institutions like FATF contribute to counter-terrorism norm production?
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