This 2012 publication - published by BetterAid in cooperation with the Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness - provides an overview of the CSO initiatives that strengthened development effectiveness and the enabling environment for CSOs.

This report, published by the World Movement for Democracy and ICNL, lists legal barriers constraining civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world; addresses state justifications rationalizing these legal barriers; and identifies a set of international principles that defends civil society.

This 2012 UNESCO publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances.

Over the past decade, the United Nations' work to combat global terrorism has expanded dramatically.

In this report (A/HRC/20/27), Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai's first to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur highlights best practices worldwide that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, covering areas such as:

Over the course of the post-9/11 era, the U.S. Supreme Court has had much to say about the government’s response to terrorism as that response relates to military detention and trial before military commissions.

In 2011, armed personnel of the Egyptian government detained employees and seized documents and computers from several NGOs.

Freedom of assembly in Czech Republic is generally in compliance with international standards and best practices.

This report on human rights defenders in the Americas, published in 2011 by the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), is a follow up to the body's 2006 report on the same subject.

This report, prepared by the UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, summarizes a Human Rights Council panel discussion on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests.