15-01-2011
The issue looks at the types of restrictions that are increasingly imposed on NGO activities and examined restraints on global philanthropy and NGO participation in public policy debates.
ICNL just published its new issue of the Global Trends in NGO Law. Global Trends was established to track and provide news on legal developments affecting NGOs, and particularly, legal restrictions on the work of NGOs.
Issue 3 of Volume 2 features enabling legal reform strategies employed in Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, and Serbia. For each country the issue provides a brief description of the substantive reforms and their significance, as well as highlights of the crucially important participatory process of engagement that led to reform. It concludes by examining lessons that can be learned by advocates seeking to advance more enabling laws for civil society.