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Action for Civic Space

ICNL Global Forum 2015 opened

200 leading thinkers from 80 countries came together in Stockholm to assess the civil society stand and the possibilities for its advancement in the coming two days at Global Forum 2015: Shaping Civil Space.

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Monitoring Civic Spaces

ECNL presented preliminary findings and recommendations of the 2014 Monitoring Matrix Regional Report

ECNL gave an overview on the state of the enabling environment for CSDev in enlargement countries.

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Action for Civic Space

OSCE/ODIHR Civil Society Forum: building a culture of cooperation between states and CSOs

The event focused on participation in decision making processes.

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Security/CT

Who owns the transparency agenda?

A multi-stakeholder exchange on who’s driving it and why.

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UN Standards

OHCHR calls for input: How to create and maintain civil society space?

The High Commissioner for Human Rights is putting together a report of practical recommendations on the space for civil society to work freely and independently.

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Action for Civic Space

Study visit in ECNL office

We hosted lawyers from Moldova to give an insight to legal framework of the Hungarian CSO sector, and in particular the 1% law and its application.

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UN Standards

Input requested for OHCHR study on the right to participate

The right to directly and indirectly participate in political and public life is important in empowering individuals and groups, and is one of the core elements of human rights-based approaches aimed at eliminating marginalization and discrimination.

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UN Standards

UN Special Rapporteur: 2014 was a decisive year in the history

UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kai has released a year-end report summarizing the developments, events and lessons learned in 2014.

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Action for Civic Space

The Operating Environment for Public-Benefit Foundations in the Western Balkans Region

The first comprehensive analysis on foundations of the region based on data provided by local experts.

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