ICNL guide for how civil society partners can provide inputs into the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas, and mineral resources.

This article, published by EURICS, explores China’s tumultuous past of navigating overseas funding and aid during times of crisis. It compares this history to the recent COVID-19 outbreak and related constraints

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Following a swell of racial justice protests that have taken to the streets, politically charged bills are being introduced across the United States which give immunity to drivers who injure protestors.

This Just Security article, written by ICNL CEO Doug Rutzen and Senior Legal Advisor Nicholas Miller, calls on the United States to ensure that vital humanitarian aid for Afghanistan is not impeded by existing counterterrorism measures.

In this article, the European Center for Not-for-Profit law analyzes the extent to newly adopted HRC resolutions provide safeguards for online civic freedoms.

Since 2017, ICNL has tracked introduced anti-protest legislation in the United States. This page uses data from ICNL’s US Protest Law Tracker to analyze major themes in legislation impacting the freedom of peaceful assembly in the US. Whether it was the struggles of the founding fathers or movements for women’s suffrage and racial justice, the right to protest is critical to ensuring everyone’s voice is heard, and progress is made.

On May 13, 2021, ICNL, in collaboration with CIVICUS, convened civil society organizations that work on climate justice from across sub-Saharan Africa to meet with UNSR Voule. The goal of the meeting was to share first-hand information about the threats and challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly and association facing climate defenders in Africa.

In recent years, India has enacted a number of regulatory measures constricting funding for domestic non-profit organizations, the most well-known of which is the Foreign [...]

This ICNL briefer, provides background on online gender-based violence and describes the ongoing work of partners in pushing back against the use of online spaces and tools to violate the human rights and civic freedoms of women and girls.