These EU recommendations call on Member States to issue policies that consider the “important EU dimension to volunteering” and “a more coherent and comprehensive policy approach” to volunteerism.

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan proposed a new draft law “About Freedom of Conscience and Religious Unions.”

A report discussing the professional relationships and mechanisms used to nominate and elect NGO representatives for state commissions and other consultative positions in Central and Eastern Europe.

This analysis by the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law compares European practices to promote NGO participation in government decision-making.

On July 28, 2007 the President of Azerbaijan’s Decree confirming state support for NGOs was officially published in the official newspaper.

This article from USAID’s 2007 NGO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia – authored by ICNL’s Catherine Shea and ECNL’s Katerina Hadzi-Miceva – provides an overview of legislation on volunteers from nine countries in the Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia region: Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland and Romania.

ICNL‘s efforts to strengthen the legal enabling environment for NGOs in Azerbaijan reaches a new landmark with the Assessment of the Legal Framework for Non-Governmental Organizations in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

This 2007 publication from the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law presents an overview of European practices for regulating organizations with public benefit status.

ICNL and its working group partners in Mexico – the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de México (ITAM), Incide Social, and communications consultant, Cristina Galindez – are pleased to announce the publication of the report Definition of a Fiscal Agenda for the Development of Civil Society Organizations in Mexico (available in English and Spanish).

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 23, 2007 On February 22, 2007, the Upper Chamber of Tajikistan’s Parliament rejected the new Law on Public Associations in its current form […]