In this inaugural publication of the Civic Freedom Digest, ICNL highlights some of the key challenges that digital technologies pose to civic freedom, as well as successful civil society efforts to combat these threats.

This legislative briefer focuses on how critical infrastructure bills can undermine protesters’ right to peaceful assembly by creating draconian penalties for trespass as well as severely penalizing vaguely defined interference with the construction or operation of critical infrastructure sites.

This ECNL paper aims to empower civil society organizations, activists, donors, researchers, and others to counter restrictions on international funding and advocate for a more enabling environment for civil society’s activities and impact.

In the past several years, activists who are part of the BDS movement have called for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS).

This guide aims to help organizations understand and comply with new obligations under Tanzania’s amended NGO Act and Societies Act.

This handbook builds an understanding of the legal and policy framework affecting the daily work of media and other organizations and proposes strategies for navigating restrictions in Tanzania.

General Comments are an important standard setting instrument and a powerful advocacy tool for the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In this 2019 report, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Voule, focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing these rights in the digital age. 

This report from the Consortium for Financial Access discusses how security-focused regulation of the financial sector has resulted in “de-risking” of the non-profit sector and makes recommendations for addressing this problem.

On June 12, 2019, UN Special Rapporteur Clement Voule issued a report (A/HRC/41/41) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association in the digital era.