On August 1, 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia (MoJ) adopted the “Rule for Registration, Financial Declaration Submission, and Monitoring of Organizations Acting in the Interests of Foreign Powers”.

This series of videos, featuring civil society representatives, academics, and government officials from across Latin America and the Caribbean, explores different issues related to CSOs’ access to financial resources.  

This Legislative Overview examines the regulation of civil society organizations’ key sources of income and the important legal factors that impact their financial sustainability in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Special Rapporteur, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, addresses the trends, developments and challenges threatening civil society’s access to financial resources, including laws, policies and practices that impede such access in this report, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in accordance with resolution 41/12.

On May 14, 2024, the Georgian parliament adopted the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence. The Law requires non-entrepreneurial legal entities and media organizations to register and submit information to be included in a special registry of “implementing organizations of foreign power interests” to be maintained by the Ministry of Justice.

ICNL, along with other civil society organizations, welcome the United States-led resolution, “Seizing the opportunities of safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems for sustainable development”.

A growing array of legal threats make it harder for nonprofit organizations and activists in the U.S. to do their work. This article covers 10 major legal threats to U.S. civil society.

This guide has been developed to provide information on reporting requirements in the Kyrgyz Republic for noncommercial organizations (NCOs), branches/representative offices of foreign NCOs, limited liability companies, and individual entrepreneurs.

The draft law on foreign representatives, initiated on November 21, 2022, would establish new burdensome requirements for all noncommercial organizations (NCOs), including foreign NCOs, if enacted.

On April 3, 2024, the Georgian Dream party registered in the parliament the draft Law of Georgia on Foreign Influence Transparency (“the Georgian draft law”).