On May 9, 2018, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) testified at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations on protecting civil society, faith-based actors, and political speech in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Civil society and the ability to exercise civic freedoms – the freedoms of association, expression, and peaceful assembly – have been under threat for many years.

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) is pleased to share our latest report: “The State of Civic Freedoms in the Middle East and North Africa: Access to Associational Rights in Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Kuwait.”

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law is pleased to share our latest issue of Global Trends in NGO Law.

The future of democracy is entangled with artificial intelligence (AI). ICNL legal advisors, Zach Lampell and Lily Liu, wrote a piece for OpenGlobalRights examining how AI can be used to strengthen civic space.

The Money Laundering Bulletin has published a piece on the abuse of charities for terrorist financing in the Middle East, featuring comments from ICNL's Dima Jweihan.