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).

This report (A/HRC/31/66) provides guidance on how applicable international human rights standards may be operationalized in domestic law and practice to ensure greater protection of the rights involved.

Slandering democratic protesters as foreign stooges is a favorite tactic of authoritarian regimes. In this Foreign Policy article, Srdja Popovic offers ideas how to beat it.