This report (A/68/299) – Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s first to the UN General Assembly – documents threats to the freedoms of assembly and expression in the context of elections.

This joint publication by ICNL and ECNL reviews the Republic of Georgia’s Law on Assembly and Manifestations from the perspective of compliance with international standards, in particular with regard to the prior notification of the assembly and restrictions.

This 2013 analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic’s Law on State Procurement of Social Services (Law on SPSS) also includes best practices in the state procurement of social services and recommendations for improving the SPSS system in the Kyrgyz Republic.

This global composite index from CIVICUS used secondary data to assess the governance, socio-cultural, and socio-economic environments for civil society in 109 countries in 2013.

This 2013 policy briefing from TNI discusses, among other things, the danger in encouraging regimes to restrict the legitimate activities of CSOs when transposing financing requirements.

In recent years, the Arab region has seen a steady increase in the number of foundations and witnessed increased engagement of corporate philanthropy in support of social/economic initiatives.

In this submission, ICNL and our partners in the Civic Space Initiative (CSI) urged the High Level Panel to prioritize an “enabling environment” for civil society in the post 2015 development agenda with due focus on governance and legal frameworks.

In recent years, civil society actors have been facing increased control and undue restrictions in relation to funding they received, or allegedly received.

In this report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity.

This paper by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law was prepared in response to the Government of Mongolia’s intentions to reform the system of contracting government tasks and to include civil society organization in the delivery of such tasks.