This 20014 book published by Open Society Foundations provides guidance for creating or amending domestic laws that protect and regulate civic organizations.

This 2004 chart, prepared by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, compares the percentage designation mechanisms from Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Poland.

A paper by ECNL offering a European perspective on policies and practices regarding NGO-Government cooperation in EU member states and other Central and Eastern European countries.

Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, Cuba (1990).

This article from 1989 argues that the Soviet Union’s decision to stop jamming broadcasts at the end of the Cold War was not a concession, but rather signified that it was respecting its international obligations undertaken years earlier.