To empower parliamentarians (MPs) to advocate for internet freedoms, APHR & ICNL presents this Toolkit for Parliamentarians: Promoting Internet Freedoms in Southeast Asia.

With the strings tightening on government purses across Europe and the role and influence of non-profit organisations growing, a number of questions have been raised concerning the legitimacy of foundations in particular and whether existing public regulation and self-regulatory frameworks are enough to ensure that the sector is open and held accountable.

In this article, ICNL examines the legislation on the openness of activities of state organs in Uzbekistan.

India's Lokpal and Lokayukta Act 2013 is a law intended to regulate and control corruption in public institutions.

This guide, authored by ICNL at the invitation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), provides official guidance to civil society and OGP member states on how to create an enabling environment for civil society.

This report praises Taiwan’s pandemic governance for its transparent, collaborative nature in which government agencies worked with civil society to deal with COVID-19.

In this article, Tamara Teebi explains the complex challenges facing women's organizations and activists in Palestine. Women human rights defenders and women-led civil society organizations are subjected to harassment, restrictions, and violations, both online and offline, that limit their right to the freedom of peaceful assembly and association. This systematic repression makes their work difficult and excludes women from public life.

In an interview with Ms. Mai Elimat, who contributed to the fourth and fifth National Action Plans for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative in Jordan 2018-2020 with the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, she discussed the OGP mechanism and how women-led associations can benefit from these commitments and use them as a tool to push for government reform.

This Just Security article, co-authored by ICNL Senior Legal Advisor Nicholas Miller, unpacks the UN counterterrorism report, reviewing the achievements and discussing options for how the U.N. can respond to challenges and think about solutions beyond those cited.

March 2023 - a group of parliamentarians introduced a draft law of Georgia on transparency of foreign influence. Read our summary and full report here.