To empower parliamentarians (MPs) to advocate for internet freedoms, APHR & ICNL presents this Toolkit for Parliamentarians: Promoting Internet Freedoms in Southeast Asia.

Renewable energy technologies will play an important role in reducing our carbon footprint, read our briefer on the progress affecting human rights here.

This ICNL briefer covering the problems with anti-rioting laws including allowing the government to bring charges with extreme penalties against protesters, politicians, and other Americans engaged in protected First Amendment activity.

March 2023 – a group of parliamentarians introduced a draft law of Georgia on transparency of foreign influence. Read our summary and full report here.

This report praises Taiwan’s pandemic governance for its transparent, collaborative nature in which government agencies worked with civil society to deal with COVID-19.

This Just Security article, co-authored by ICNL Senior Legal Advisor Nicholas Miller, unpacks the UN counterterrorism report, reviewing the achievements and discussing options for how the U.N. can respond to challenges and think about solutions beyond those cited.

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.