PUBLISHED: JANUARY 29, 2014 As he concluded his official visit to Rwanda, the UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly […]

In this December 2013 report, Margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, discusses how banning unregistered groups and imposing “treason” charges on groups that receive foreign funding are among the regulations that endanger human rights defenders and political rights activists.

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 1, 2013 Global Update by the Civic Space Initiative The Civic Space Initiative (CSI) welcomes the recent report on freedom of peaceful assembly and of […]

This report (A/68/299) – Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s first to the UN General Assembly – documents threats to the freedoms of assembly and expression in the context of elections.

PUBLISHED: MAY 3, 2013 ICNL played a key role in the preparation of the report, both in the development of the report’s theoretical framework and […]

In recent years, civil society actors have been facing increased control and undue restrictions in relation to funding they received, or allegedly received.

Published: March 28, 2013 A group of United Nations human rights experts have urged the Egyptian Shura Council not to adopt a draft law that [...]

PUBLISHED: MARCH 25, 2013 ICNL welcomes a new UN Human Rights Council resolution protecting human rights defenders, including the right to receive international funding. The resolution introduced […]

In this report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity.

As required by General Assembly resolution 65/230, this 2013 Study was prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with a view to ‘examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime.’