Based on requests from local partners, ICNL and ECNL conducted a comparative analysis of the draft Law of Georgia on Transparency of Foreign Influence (the Draft Law) regarding its compliance with international law and European standards (Analysis).

This briefer examines how new types of technology used by the government to surveil protests can lead to abuse and deter demonstrators from exercising their First Amendment rights. It then outlines how both courts and lawmakers can respond to this threat.

This ICNL partner analysis assesses Myanmar’s 2022 Association Registration Law and the FATF blacklisting in October 2022 and their potential impacts on media and civil society actors. Taken together, these two measures are likely to constrain media and civil society, which are trying to survive in an already highly challenging operational environment.

These guidelines, put together by the NGO Law Institute (NGOLI) with the support of ICNL, are designed to help activists from Belarus and other Eurasian countries who relocate to Lithuania to organize their work in compliance with Lithuanian law.

This report makes recommendations that aim to ensure internet freedoms and freedom of expression in Malaysia, creating an environment where people can safely discuss issues related to race, religion, and royalty without fear and self-censorship.

The Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders have compiled a knowledge toolkit which aims to provide practical reference for EHRDs to support their work while preventing and mitigating security issues.

This briefer focuses on surveillance and other digital threats to free expression in India, examining the proliferation of illegal surveillance in recent years and examples of the suppression of online free expression.

These guidelines are designed to help activists from Belarus and other Eurasian countries who relocate to Georgia to organize their work in compliance with Georgian law.

In order to advocate for barrier-free access to resources, civil society organizations need to be aware of the legislation affecting their income. To help organizations build awareness, the USAID Civil Society Engagement Program (CSEP), implemented by the East-West Management Institute, Inc., ICNL, and ECNL formed a team to prepare an assessment of the legal environment for civil society financial sustainability and corporate and individual philanthropy in Georgia.

Politically motivated boycotts have long been a tool for social change in the United States, from American colonists’ boycott of British tea to civil rights activists’ refusal to patronize segregated businesses in the Jim Crow South. Despite this proud tradition, Americans’ ability to use their consumer power to have their voices heard is under new threat after some states have penalized boycotts on positions with which they disagree.