This report draws on a first of its kind ICNL database of state domestic terrorism statutes to warn about the chilling impact these laws can have for U.S. civil society.

On August 21, 2024, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and FORUM-ASIA, with logistical support from the Asia Centre, convened a one-day workshop exploring governance practices during public emergencies.

This report explores the response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zea­land – balancing of rights and general protection of civic freedoms.

On August 1, 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia (MoJ) adopted the “Rule for Registration, Financial Declaration Submission, and Monitoring of Organizations Acting in the Interests of Foreign Powers”.

This series of videos, featuring civil society representatives, academics, and government officials from across Latin America and the Caribbean, explores different issues related to CSOs’ access to financial resources.  

This Legislative Overview examines the regulation of civil society organizations’ key sources of income and the important legal factors that impact their financial sustainability in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Special Rapporteur, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, addresses the trends, developments and challenges threatening civil society’s access to financial resources, including laws, policies and practices that impede such access in this report, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in accordance with resolution 41/12.

On May 14, 2024, the Georgian parliament adopted the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence. The Law requires non-entrepreneurial legal entities and media organizations to register and submit information to be included in a special registry of “implementing organizations of foreign power interests” to be maintained by the Ministry of Justice.

ICNL, along with other civil society organizations, welcome the United States-led resolution, “Seizing the opportunities of safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems for sustainable development”.

In this report, author Shawn Shih-hung Shieh, Ph.D., writes that Taiwan’s Civil Association Law should be reformed.