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

This guide, created by ECNL, explores the key standards that protect climate activists’ civic freedoms.  It maps out the standards that protect their rights to association, peaceful assembly, expression, and participation; the types of restrictions that impact environmental defenders; and the mechanisms that can enforce their rights and freedoms.

On January 4, 2022, the Thai Cabinet approved a revised draft non-profit organization (NPO) bill drafted by the Office of the Council of State, which replaced a prior version of the Bill approved by the Cabinet in February 2021. Here are four things you need to know about the revised law.

These comments, written by ICNL’s U.S. Program team, are in response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) from the Justice Department’s National Security Division to solicit suggestions for potential amendments to implementing regulations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Armed individuals intimidate and discourage people from exercising their rights to speech and assembly, and they have interfered with basic democratic processes like voting and lawmaking. They also pose a very real threat to public safety. This briefer discusses reasonable and constitutionally-sound regulatory options at the federal, state, and local level to keep guns away from protests.

Bantay Kita, an organization in the Philippines, has been a leader in developing inputs on civic space for submission as part of EITI validation. In this report, provided to the EITI Secretariat during the Philippines’ 2020 validation, Bantay Kita draws on EITI guidance and extensive field research to describe how restrictions on civic freedoms have undermined civil society engagement in the EITI process.

Understanding the essence and practical value of human rights helps citizens enjoy and assert their rights when these rights are violated and better manage their lives by efficiently addressing personal problems and achieving public benefit goals. This sourcebook contains key materials on human rights supporting civic space, good governance, and equality between women and men.

These guidelines are intended to become an information resource for representatives of civil society organizations and citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic who want to participate in the legislative reforms more actively and help the government adopt better laws and regulations.

This ICNL comparative overview of various Eurasian countries presents international standards and comparative international practices on CSO reporting.

This ICNL briefer outlines SLAPPs related projects, activities, and impacts and presents a pathway forward for protecting civil society from abusive legislation.