Draft General Comment no. 37 includes more protection for online assemblies
Enhanced protections for online assemblies are becoming increasingly crucial when states adopt emergency measures to respond to COVID-19.
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Keeping Civic Space Healthy: Saving Lives and Human Rights
ECNL and ICNL offer a quick guide for authorities to support human rights based approaches to overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Keep Civic Space Healthy: Saving Lives and Human Rights
Joint ECNL/ICNL briefer on what states must and must not do when responding to COVID-19.
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Supporting advocacy for the right to free assembly in the Balkans and the Eastern Partnership region.
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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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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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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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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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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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