International and Comparative Law Analysis of the Right to and Restrictions on Foreign Funding of Non-Governmental Organizations

PUBLISHED: JUNE 2015

This paper by the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights explores the legal framework for cross-border funding as a protected right at international, regional, and national levels.

The jurisdictions analyzed are: U.N. treaty-bodies, the European human rights system, the Inter-American human rights system, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.