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COVID-19

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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Protests and Assemblies

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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Participation

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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Participation

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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Tech and AI

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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European policies

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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Security/CT

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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Action for Civic Space

Handbook on Registering a Civil Society Organization (CSO) - New Volume out now

Now covering 17 countries, the Handbook provides comparative information for those that wish to set up an organisation at home or in another country, or to compare conditions for incorporation and operation between countries.

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Tech and AI

When law meets tech – a call for rights-based AI

To address the rights implications of AI, legal and human rights professionals must develop broader knowledge-building networks and increase collaboration across specialised fields.

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