Over the past decade, the United Nations’ work to combat global terrorism has expanded dramatically.

This handbook, prepared by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, outlines the ways in which the state can cooperate with non-state providers in order to deliver social services.

In this report (A/HRC/20/27), Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s first to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur highlights best practices worldwide that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, covering areas such as:

On April 10, 2012, CIVICUS released State of Civil Society 2011. The report highlights the current state of civil society, and the opportunity for civil society to prove its value amid global crises.

Over the course of the post-9/11 era, the U.S. Supreme Court has had much to say about the government’s response to terrorism as that response relates to military detention and trial before military commissions.

In 2011, armed personnel of the Egyptian government detained employees and seized documents and computers from several NGOs.

Contrary to the hopes and expectations of Egyptian and international observers, the year since Egypt’s January 25 Revolution has seen a sustained series of government-orchestrated attacks on civil society.

Freedom of assembly in Czech Republic is generally in compliance with international standards and best practices.

This report on human rights defenders in the Americas, published in 2011 by the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), is a follow up to the body’s 2006 report on the same subject.

This report, prepared by the UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, summarizes a Human Rights Council panel discussion on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests.