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.

With the strings tightening on government purses across Europe and the role and influence of non-profit organisations growing, a number of questions have been raised concerning the legitimacy of foundations in particular and whether existing public regulation and self-regulatory frameworks are enough to ensure that the sector is open and held accountable.

On December 12, 2011, the Royal Government of Cambodia released the fourth draft version of the Cambodian Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations.

This paper, co-authored by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, was written for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to help develop participatory and transparent law-making process in Macedonia.