This analysis by the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law compares European practices to promote NGO participation in government decision-making.

This article from USAID's 2007 NGO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia - authored by ICNL's Catherine Shea and ECNL's Katerina Hadzi-Miceva - provides an overview of legislation on volunteers from nine countries in the Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia region: Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland and Romania.

ICNL‘s efforts to strengthen the legal enabling environment for NGOs in Azerbaijan reaches a new landmark with the Assessment of the Legal Framework for Non-Governmental Organizations in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

In the early 1990s, an ‘associational revolution’ swept through Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. But there were soon signs that a counter-revolution was under way. This article from 2006 summarizes ICNL’s survey of the challenges.

This publication presents an annotated model law for countries wishing to develop their own legislation to promote public benefit organizations.

An analysis of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation # 18-FZ On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

ICNL's comments on "amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and to the Code of Administrative Liability of the Republic of Uzbekistan” signed into law on December 28, 2005.

This is a report of the UN Secretary-General on the follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers.

ICNL's analysis of two draft laws in Kazakhstan which contradict international laws and best practices.

ICNL's analysis of two draft draft laws in Kazakhstan that would impose severe restrictions on the activities of foreign and local non-commercial organizations.