News & Announcements

Enhancing Digital Civic Space Through the OGP Process

In this guide, ICNL offers a checklist of principles to consult before embarking on digital policy initiatives, recommendations…

Analysis

Legislative Overview for Financial Sustainability for Civil Society in Central Asia

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This Legislative Overview examines the regulation of civil society organizations’ key sources of income and the important legal…

Report

The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy

This ICNL Guide explains how states can comply with the FATF Recommendations relevant to the non-profit sector and provides con…

Guidelines

Positive Practices in Implementation of FATF Recommendation 8

This ICNL Guide explains how states can comply with the FATF Recommendations relevant to the non-profit sector and provides con…

Analysis

Myanmar’s 2022 Registration Law

This assessment looks at the challenges and threats that Civil Society Organizations will face with the release of Myanmar’s ne…

Analysis

Recommendations on Uzbek Draft Foreign Funding Regulation

At the request of local CSOs, ICNL prepared recommendations for further improvement of the Draft Resolution, released by the Ca…

Litigation Challenging New Anti-Protest Laws

States across the U.S. have adopted over forty new laws that restrict the right to peaceful assembly. These laws can criminaliz…

Analysis

The Impact of Counterterrorism Measures in Myanmar

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The Myanmar military has a history of viewing civil society as an adversary and seeks to use various forms of oppression and co…

Analysis

CSO Reference Group Survey on Implementation of the DAC Recommendation

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ICNL co-led the administration of a survey of civil partners, to identify key initiatives by donors and civil society to implem…

Research Study: Challenges Facing Refugees and Migrants in Exercising Civic Freedoms in Jordan

Challenges facing refugees and migrants in exercising their civic freedoms in Jordan.

This study attempts to identify the legislative and procedural obstacles that limit the exercise of migrants and refugees’ civi…

Analysis

U.S. Current Trend: New Restrictions on Protests at Statehouses

Across the country, governors and lawmakers are using various tools to limit, punish, and deter demonstrations at state capitol…

Event

Shaping of Bangladesh’s Third Sector – Laws and Policies

USAID’s Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR), along with partners Counterpart International and ICNL, hosted a dialogue on Shapi…

Report

COVID-19, Counterterrorism, and Emergency Law

This report, from the UNSR, seeks to address the most common ways in which counter-terrorism and security norms have been put i…

Analysis

Analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic Draft Law on Foreign Representatives

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The draft law on foreign representatives, initiated on November 21, 2022, would establish new burdensome requirements for all n…

Analysis

The World According to ChatGPT

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We are focusing on ChatGPT because it has drawn the most headlines, but the concerns discussed here apply equally to all the ot…

Analysis

Case Study: Public Input in Indian Coal Mines

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This report examines the current environmental regulatory system around mines in India, and identifies opportunities and challe…

Analysis

Moving Beyond COVID-19 Restrictions in Southeast Asia

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The Asia Centre policy briefs Moving Beyond COVID-19 Restrictions in Southeast Asia: Pushing Back Against Authoritarian Pandemi…

Tools

ACHPR Guidelines for States of Emergency

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This report examines the current environmental regulatory system in India, and identifies opportunities and challenges to meani…

Tools

Funding Civil Society in Partner Countries

This report examines the current environmental regulatory system in India, and identifies opportunities and challenges to meani…

Analysis

Case Study: Public Input in Indian Environmental Decisions

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This report examines the current environmental regulatory system in India, and identifies opportunities and challenges to meani…

Event

Comment to US Government on its compliance with Article 21 of the ICCPR

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This report examines the current environmental regulatory system in India, and identifies opportunities and challenges to meani…

Analysis

Submission to the Global Digital Compact Consultative Process

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ICNL and ECNL appreciate this opportunity to set forth the principles and commitments that we believe are vital for an open, fr…

Report

Environmental Decision-Making in India

This report examines the current environmental regulatory system in India, and identifies opportunities and challenges to meani…

In the News

IAJC Adopts Principles on the Operation of Civil Society Organizations

ICNL led a participatory process engaging over 100 experts from across Latin America and the Caribbean to develop and propose t…