A list of key monitoring indicators published by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2016.

There has been relatively little public or congressional debate within the United States about the NSA’s overseas surveillance operations, which are governed primarily by Executive Order (EO) 12333.

This first annual report issued by the UN Secretary General in June 2016 provides an overview of the status of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) six months after the start of their implementation.

In recent years, Montenegro has seen social polarization over political issues, as well as intensified activism and more public gatherings.

In recent years, there has been a perceived rise in the expression of fundamentalism in many contexts across the world.

This report from CIVICUS provides a global overview of the state of civil society freedoms in 2015.

ICNL and ECNL welcome the report of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights on “Practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society, based on good practices and lessons learned” (A/H/32/20). 

The report by UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye marks the beginning of a series of studies of issues at the intersection of State regulation, the private sector and freedom of expression in a digital age.

In 2016, Alliance magazine partnered with the European Foundation Centre to learn more about the issues by inviting philanthropic actors and organizations to respond to a specially tailored survey.

This paper was prepared by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law in 2016 at the request of the Council of Europe to support the ongoing efforts in drafting the Guidelines on meaningful civil participation in political decision-making.