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.

This toolkit is designed to provide information on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Kenya.

This report maps the Indian legal framework governing the right to freedom of assembly and the right to protest, and analyses how various laws and orders erode the full enjoyment of this constitutionally protected right.

This Just Security article provides a warning of the securitization of the climate crisis and links to terrorism, while offering recommendations on protecting climate defenders from the effects of counterterrorism measures.

This toolkit, created in collaboration with the UNDP and ICNL, provides an overview of the human rights standards that apply to civic space including freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.