This report follows the seminar about “Combatting the shrinking of civil society space”, organized by EuroMed Rights, 22-24 April 2016, in Brussels.

This report (A/HRC/31/65) from the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ben Emmerson, focuses on the human rights impact of measures adopted to prevent or counter violent extremism.

This 2016 legal analysis by UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai examines India’s Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) – which regulates foreign funding to certain individuals, associations and companies – and argues that it is not conformity with international law, principles and standards.

Entries from OpenGlobalRights’ multilingual debate in 2016 on closing space for civil society, with essays by leading scholars and practitioners.

Full text of Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on Internet freedom. 

This 2016 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Document No. A/HRC/32/20) focuses on examples of practices that optimize civil society’s transformative potential.

This report aims to capture the discussions, analysis and recommendations from the 2015 Human Rights Forum on ‘Promoting and Protecting Civil Society Space’, co-organised by the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Brussels-based Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN).

This handbook by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) aims to provide guidance for the police in facilitating the right to assemble peacefully.

This policy briefing by SOLIDAR, the Euromed NGO Platform and The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) aims to shed light on the ongoing existing limitations for civil society, human rights defenders, and trade unions, in the EU’s Southern Neighboring countries.

Activities of civil society organizations are increasingly restricted in the name of security and counter-terrorism. Some of these restrictions flow from the regime of the far-reaching and influential Financial Action Task Force (FATF).