Ground-breaking Handbook on How to Use EU Law to protect Civic Space
Providing practical guidance for CSOs on how to advocate and litigate to protect their rights and civic space based on EU law.
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Briefer - How to Use EU Law to Protect Civic Space
Read our briefer on how the new EU Law Handbook that we just launched can support your work to protect civic space in the EU.
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How Croatia pushed back on COVID-19 mobile phone tracking (for now)
In Croatia the government proposed a draft law which would give it the right to track the movements of all citizens through mobile phones. As a result of public pressure, the government shelved the legislation for now.
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Fundraising Principles
The Fundraising Principles provide a global overview of current trends in fundraising regulation and self-regulation. They aim to support advocacy efforts to create an enabling environment for fundraising around the globe.
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Monitoring the Right to Free Assembly: Belarus 2019
While 2019 law amendments promised liberalization, the monitoring report finds that the situation of the right to freedom of assembly has in fact deteriorated in 2019 in Belarus.
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Protest in Time of Pandemic
Brief overview on the right to peaceful assembly during a time of pandemic in Europe.
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Protest in Time of Pandemic
Governmental responses to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic have included introducing restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly. It is important that the restrictions remain proportionate as the context of the pandemic changes.
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Keep Civic Space Healthy: Rights card on Public participation in decision making during Covid-19
During COVID-19, public participation in decision making is more crucial than ever. We need measures that respond with our actual needs and do not affect the public disproportionately.
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Keep Civic Space Healthy: Rights card on public participation in decision making during COVID-19
ECNL wants to remind people that their right to public participation is valid in times of emergency as well.
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