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ECNL joined 15+ organisations in calling for greater participation, recognition and protection of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) to advance climate justice.

When information requests are used to discredit civil society, the damage can reach far beyond the organisations themselves, and impact communities and causes they support.

More than 600 organisations call on EU leaders to invest in Europe’s democratic future.

Read ECNL’s recommendations in response to the Draft Act on the Protection of National Security by the Intelligence and Security Services.

ECNL's new synthesis of the ideas that came out of the roundtable on agentic AI, held during the UN General Assembly week in September 2026.

How could emerging social, technological, political and behavioural shifts reshape democratic life at the European, national and local levels?

Read ECNL’s comments on how the upcoming General Comment No. 38 can strengthen safeguards for individuals, organisations and movements to exercise and defend their right to associate.