Given a recent wave of inquiries, ICNL and the Council on Foundations are organizing an open conference call on China’s Draft Law on Management of Overseas NGOs and Foundations: Impact on U.S. Funders and Organizations Working in China.

The Hudson Institute’s Index of Philanthropic Freedom assesses the level of philanthropic freedom around the world and provides recommendations for policymakers. 

Chief among the current challenges facing the global human rights community (and broader civil society) is a contagion growing in intensity described best as the closing space around civil society.

This document was issued by USAID in response to a closing civil society space in order to give guidance on balancing a democratic commitment to transparency and the imperative to protect the security of implementing partners and beneficiaries.

This article by Kay Guinane of the Charity & Security Network explains how the Financial Action Task Force has contributed to the global trend of restrictions on civil society.

Almost all European countries allow CSOs to directly engage in economic activities without requiring them to create commercial entities for that purpose up to a certain level of income.

This 2015 ICNL report examines the legal regulation of NGOs in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 

This 2015 policy paper by Daniel Smilov analyzes popular sovereignty and protests in Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine, along with 10 major policy implications of these protests.

Despite clear protections in the Constitution, the fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Burundi is framed by a very restrictive law enacted on December 5, 2013: The law on assemblies and public demonstrations.

This report from Freedom House analyzes instances of mass social protests in 12 countries in order to identify best practices in promoting and protecting the right to peaceful assembly.