How do you have to plan and prepare to monitor an assembly? What do you need to observe when you are there?

Social media has become a vital tool for free expression around the world. Recognizing this growth, a number of countries have adopted regulatory frameworks to ensure safe and legal use of digital platforms and to prevent illicit online activities.

This document contains the updated tier classification, based on changes made by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) following its physical and vitural meetings since March 2016.

Universities and other institutions of higher education around the world face increasing legislative, regulatory, and administrative limitations on their autonomy, ranging from state interference in their governance structures to controls on their academic programs.

The UN Human Rights Committee recently announced that it would issue a General Comment on Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the right to peaceful assembly).

in this report to the Human Rights Council, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, Ms. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, explores the connection between the increase in multilateral and national counterterrorism efforts and the global trend towards closing civic space.

On February 21-22, 2019, ICNL, along with our partners the Civil Society Reference Group and CIPESA, convened a consultative meeting in Nairobi, Kenya with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Voule, to discuss digital space and the protections of Freedoms of Association and Peaceful Assembly in Africa.

In partnership with local experts and civil society organizations (CSOs), the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law has developed the CSO Meter, a pilot tool to monitor the environment in which CSOs operate in Eastern Partnership countries.

The US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is a sweeping and generally underenforced public disclosure statute.

The right to free assembly is an indispensable element of democracy and a healthy civil society. Recent years have seen a new era of mass protests, but also a significant increase in practical restrictions on the right in Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries.