This ICNL Guide explains how states can comply with the FATF Recommendations relevant to the non-profit sector and provides concrete examples of positive practices and strategies.

This updated monitoring assessment from a working group of local Myanmar civil society organizations (CSOs) and networks explores the challenges and threats encountered by both registered and non-registered CSOs in the post-coup period.

This three-part guide is designed to help activists from Belarus and other Eurasian countries who relocate to Poland to organize their work in compliance with Polish law.

On November 2, 2022, the Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic published the Non-commercial Non-Governmental Organizations (Draft Law) on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers for public discussion. The Draft Law would grant broad rights to government bodies, allowing them to use their discretion to decide whether to register non-commercial organizations (NCO) and foreign non-commercial organizations (FNCO), to supervise any activities of  NCOs and FNCOs, and to suspend their activities or liquidate them.

This updated monitoring assessment from a working group of local Myanmar civil society organizations (CSOs) and networks explores the challenges and threats encountered by both registered and non-registered CSOs in the post-coup period.

With many Kyrgyzstani noncommercial organizations (NCOs) concerned about potential legal restriction on their activities, ICNL developed a guide on the registration of limited liability companies (LLCs) and individual entrepreneurs (IEs) in the Kyrgyz Republic.

In the wake of complaints about law enforcement’s response to the George Floyd protests, local, state, and the federal government have proposed reforms to better protect the freedom of assembly. This resource page provides examples of some of these reforms.

ICNL and ECNL developed a comprehensive report summarizing UN sources of law relating to association, drawing on materials from the Committee, UN Human Rights Council, and UN Special Rapporteurs.

On October 4, 2023, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan approved Regulation #527 which sets up a procedure on the registration of foreign grants received by Uzbek non-governmental non-commercial organizations (NNOs) and on the implementation of activities funded under these foreign grants.

Around the world, governments are constraining civil society and dissent. A common tactic of these governments is to enact legislation targeting civil society groups that receive international funding.