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Tech and AI

ECNL submission to Facebook Oversight Board's call for public comments

Our concerns outline how content take-downs silence human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and CSOs more generally. Importantly, take-downs disproportionately silence minority voices under the excuse of counter-terrorism.

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Climate Action

Join the European consultation on civic space for climate defenders!

Share the challenges you have faced as a climate activist to your right to associate and protest with the UN Special Rapporteur.

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Funding and Philanthropy

Regulation of philanthropy: improving the environment for fundrasing

How can we promote and protect philanthropy? Is it possible to do so through regulation?

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Funding and Philanthropy

Digital technologies in fundraising

How does the rise of new tech affect the environment for fundraising?

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Monitoring Civic Spaces

Call for a Methodology Expert

ECNL is looking for an expert to guide and advise the implementation of a regional comparison model for the CSO Meter Phase 2 project.

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Participation

Participation Champions: Supporting civic engagement through implementation of the UN Participation Guidelines

Practical examples for supporting meaningful participation.

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Climate Action

Celebrate Earth Day, Protect Civic Voices

Four steps for the protection of climate activists.

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Protests and Assemblies

Protest section of UK Bill incompliant with international standards

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, if introduced in its current form, casts protest as an inconvenience rather than a fundamental right to be protected.

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COVID-19

Briefer: One year of COVID-19 and civic freedoms in the Eastern Partnership region

A summary of legal responses and how they affected civic freedoms in the past year in six EaP countries.

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