This 2017 submission by ECNL to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights elaborates the scope and definitions of the right to participate in public affairs, general principles, prerequisites for participation, and the framework for participation.

This paper summarizes the outcomes of the September 2016 workshop on the effective implementation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)  standards on nonprofits.

There has been relatively little public or congressional debate within the United States about the NSA’s overseas surveillance operations, which are governed primarily by Executive Order (EO) 12333.

This 2016 legal analysis by UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai examines India’s Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) – which regulates foreign funding to certain individuals, associations and companies – and argues that it is not conformity with international law, principles and standards.

This paper addresses the Policy for regulation of International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) in Pakistan adopted in October 2015.

ICNL’s initial review of the Kingdom of Cambodia’s draft Trade Union Law (Draft TUL) of November 18, 2015. This analysis focuses solely on the freedoms of association, assembly and expression, and concludes that there are a number of problems with the Draft TUL, including:

This list by ECNL, the European Foundation Centre, and Human Security Collective aims to categorize the various types of overregulation NGOs encounter, which has resulted from or may have resulted from the misinterpretation and/or misapplication of the Financial Action Task Force regime, with a focus on Recommendation 8.

This 2015 UNSECO study provides a comprehensive overview of the core documents about Internet Governance principles developed and adopted by various stakeholders.

Chief among the current challenges facing the global human rights community (and broader civil society) is a contagion growing in intensity described best as the closing space around civil society.

In this letter to the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Post 2015 Development Planning, the Civic Space Initiative (CSI) partners express our concern that there is no explicit recognition of an “enabling environment for civil society” in the Open Working Group’s proposal on Sustainable Development Goals and urging that the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report highlights this issue.