Publications

Learn about the latest trends and core issues related to CSO law and policy.

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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Protests and Assemblies

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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Protests and Assemblies

Protest in Time of Pandemic

Brief overview on the right to peaceful assembly during a time of pandemic in Europe.

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Participation

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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COVID-19

COVID-19 response in the Eastern Partnership region: emergency measures and civic freedoms

Briefer about emergency measures in the EaP region and actions CSOs have taken to address their impact on human rights.

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Funding and Philanthropy

Key aspects of the percentage designation mechanism

What are the issues to assess in Ukraine in terms of the expected impact of this alternative funding source for civil society and the conditions of its successful implementation?

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COVID-19

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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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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