This U.S. Institute of Peace report explains the role civil society can play in building resistance to the drivers of violent extremism and in helping to reform the security bodies charged with counter-terrorism.

This report (A/68/299) – Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai's first to the UN General Assembly – documents threats to the freedoms of assembly and expression in the context of elections.

This joint publication by ICNL and ECNL reviews the Republic of Georgia's Law on Assembly and Manifestations from the perspective of compliance with international standards, in particular with regard to the prior notification of the assembly and restrictions.

This global composite index from CIVICUS used secondary data to assess the governance, socio-cultural, and socio-economic environments for civil society in 109 countries in 2013.

This 2013 policy briefing from TNI discusses, among other things, the danger in encouraging regimes to restrict the legitimate activities of CSOs when transposing financing requirements.

In recent years, the Arab region has seen a steady increase in the number of foundations and witnessed increased engagement of corporate philanthropy in support of social/economic initiatives.

In recent years, civil society actors have been facing increased control and undue restrictions in relation to funding they received, or allegedly received.

In this report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity.

The Arab region witnessed tremendous changes between 2011-2013 as the result of popular uprisings in response to decades of lack of democracy and freedom, economic and social deprivations and inequalities, and a rise in unemployment, particularly among youth, poverty and social marginalization.

As required by General Assembly resolution 65/230, this 2013 Study was prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with a view to ‘examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime.’