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AI Governance
Article

Promoting Rights Based AI Governance

Last updated: April 1, 2025

Malicious actors have unleashed disinformation campaigns to undermine elections. Authoritarian governments are using technology to censor free speech. ICNL is at the forefront of efforts to develop human rights-centered standards to regulate AI, both internationally and at the country level.
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Article

Supporting Civil Society in Exile

Last updated: April 1, 2025

In Myanmar, civic space drastically contracted after the February 2021 coup. By supporting relocation, ICNL enables our partners to continue their crucial work and help other organizations confronting similar challenges.
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Article

Upholding Civic Freedom in Georgia

Last updated: April 1, 2025

In early 2023, Georgians took to the streets to protest a highly restrictive draft foreign agent law. Within days of the draft's release, ICNL and ECNL developed and disseminated an analysis of the flaws.
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Article

Inter-American Principles for Civil Society

Last updated: April 1, 2025

Although the freedom of association is enshrined in constitutions across the Americas, restrictions to this right are common. ICNL and Orias developed the InterAmerican Principles - twelve straightforward principles set a benchmark for OAS member states' regulation of CSOs, from establishment to dissolution.
Assessment & monitoring
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Blurred Lines and Tough Choices

Last updated: March 31, 2025

This assessment, produced by ICNL in 2018, presents Jamaica's laws - or lack thereof - that impact civil society organizations and social enterprises within a framework of international legal standards and comparative practice.
Georgia Parliament
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Overview of Georgia’s Foreign Influence Law

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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.
kazakhstan, photo credit Nozim Nurillaev via Unsplash
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Legislative Overview for Financial Sustainability for Civil Society in Central Asia

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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.
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Review of the Implementing Regulation to the Law of Georgia on Transparency of Foreign Influence

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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”.
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Article

Balancing Rights and Civic Freedoms with Effective Pandemic Governance

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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

Safeguarding Civic Space During Public Emergencies

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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.
Crowd marching with signs that read "TIME FOR CHANGE" and "SILENCE IS VIOLENCE"
Article

State Domestic Terrorism Laws in the United States

Last updated: March 31, 2025

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.
Street view of Georgian Ministry of Justice
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Implications of the Implementing Regulation to the Law of Georgia on Transparency of Foreign Influence

Last updated: March 31, 2025

This overview provides interpretations and analysis of the requirements in the Regulation to help NNLEs better understand the requirements.
Jaipur Column at Rashtrapati Bhavan New Delhi
Article

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Findings

Last updated: March 31, 2025

Although India achieved a high level of technical compliance overall, FATF notes that India needs to better comply with FATF Recommendation 8 on non-profit organizations (NPOs).
Distant View of Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi
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Amendment to the Implementing Regulation to the Law of Georgia on Transparency of Foreign Influence

Last updated: March 31, 2025

This Brief provides an overview of the changes to the Implementing Regulation, specifically regarding the requirements for completing the Financial Declaration.
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ICNL’s Aida Dzhumanazarova Receives Human Rights Award

Last updated: March 31, 2025

The Secretary of State’s Human Rights Defender Award recognizes Aida Dzhumanazarova for demonstrating leadership and courage promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world.

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Article

Digital Rights in Central America

Last updated: March 31, 2025

Guaranteeing fundamental rights in the digital environment is currently a crucial challenge for societies. In the Central American Subregion, the situation is particularly complex.
safeguarding access to resources
Article

Safeguarding Civil Society’s Access to Resources

Last updated: March 31, 2025

As governments continue to restrict civic space, ICNL remains committed to building the resilience of civil society groups and safeguarding their right to access resources.

bolstering data protection in Africa
Article

Bolstering Data Protection in Africa

Last updated: March 31, 2025

As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, the amount of personally identifiable data – including our names, addresses, birthdates, and identification numbers – that we share has increased exponentially.
Toktogul Satylganov Philharmonic Square in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
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Manual on the Entrepreneurial Activity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the Kyrgyz Republic

Last updated: March 31, 2025

ICNL's manual addresses the right of various types of Kyrgyz CSOs to carry out entrepreneurial activity while also providing practical information.
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Article

Bangladesh’s Cyber Security Act

Last updated: March 31, 2025

The purpose of this handbook is to provide an overview of the Cyber Security Act 2023 and its key provisions, as well as its application.

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Preserving Freedom of Assembly in the US

Last updated: March 31, 2025

ICNL tracks legislative proposals that would limit the right to protest in the US, alerts partners about these initiatives, and provides nonpartisan analysis of legal issues affecting the freedom of assembly.
building the resilience of civil society in exile
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Building the Resilience of Civil Society in Exile

Last updated: March 31, 2025

ICNL helps civil society organizations operating in exile to navigate and comply with legal obligations in their countries of refuge so they can continue to pursue their missions.
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Article

Anti-Corruption Bureau in Georgia: Policies and Practice Affecting Civil Society

Last updated: March 31, 2025

In September 2024, the Georgian Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) issued decisions designating the status of a “person with a declared electoral goal” to two prominent, pro-EU civil society organizations (CSOs), a designation that effectively reclassifies CSOs as similar to political parties, and imposes restrictions on the activities of and funding opportunities available to CSOs.
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Article

Development Impacts of Civic Space Restrictions

Last updated: March 31, 2025

ICNL commissioned two studies to examine the relationship between civil society contributions and the SDGs.
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