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