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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Publications
Learn about the latest trends and core issues related to CSO law and policy.
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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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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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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Enabling the Flow of Donations
The paper aims to empower CSOs, activists, donors, researchers and others to counter restrictions to international funding and advocate for a more enabling environment for CSOs' activities and impact.
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The Right to Free Assembly in the Balkans
The summary report identifies some areas of concern that will need further attention in the region, including the over bureaucratisation of the administrative procedures or the high levels of responsibilities for organizers.
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New Comparative Briefer on Social Entrepreneurship
ECNL supports the development of a regulatory framework for social enterprises in Jamaica.
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Briefer on Monitoring Public Assemblies
How do you have to plan and prepare to monitor an assembly? What do you need to observe when you are there? What do you do with the information you gather through first-hand observation? How do you deal with the media?
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