This interactive tool, a companion piece to our China Philanthropy Law report, helps users visualize the Chinese civil society sector.

The Law on Administration of Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations in Mainland China is the first comprehensive law regulating the activities of all overseas NGOs in the People’s Republic of China.

The 2016 Charity Law is the first law to regulate domestic charitable organizations and their activities in the People’s Republic of China.

UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s 2018 report to the Human Rights Council, which analyzes international law pertaining to state use of emergency measures and its impact on human rights.

This report by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law and the Human Security Collective addresses how bank de-risking and financial access issues – inordinate delays in cash transfers, onerous due-diligence requirements, inability to open bank accounts and arbitrary closure of bank accounts – affects CSOs.

Civil society advocates have helped propel the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The East Africa region is vibrant with civic activity driven by diverse civil society formations. However, the region has not been spared from the closing civic space phenomenon that increasingly restricts people’s rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, of association and of expression in many countries across the globe.

This briefing, released in February 2018, explores how select recent changes, or proposed changes, in laws or regulations in the United States affect domestic civil society organizations (CSOs), international CSOs working inside the U.S., and U.S. CSOs working internationally.

In this article in the Minnesota Law Review, Lloyd H. Mayer explores restrictions on cross-border funding of nonprofits and the possibility of using international investment treaties to protect such funding.

This paper from ECNL and Human Security Collective provides entry points for CSOs wishing to engage in the Financial Action Task Force country evaluation process.