News and updates from BCSDN and the region
SCiDEV’s latest Digital Rights e-Bulletin reviews legal, regulatory and practical developments affecting digital rights in Albania during August and September 2026. Among the developments covered…
Read more →The Global Commission on Democracy and Multilateralism has called for democracy to be embedded in any global development framework succeeding the UN 2030 Agenda. The…
Read more →Anti-corruption reform in the Western Balkans must move beyond formal legal alignment and demonstrate measurable, irreversible results in practice, according to the conclusions of a…
Read more →Civil Society Europe has set out recommendations for implementing the European Democracy Shield through a whole-of-society approach that recognises civil society as an integral part…
Read more →The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) has launched a new Civic Space Tracker, a digital tool for monitoring legal threats to civic space across…
Read more →Civil society, media and other stakeholders in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have developed 197 recommendations aimed at improving digital platform…
Read more →The Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) has expressed serious concern following the acquittal of Yorgen Fenech, who had been standing trial for complicity and…
Read more →At least 14 people in Serbia, including members of the student movement, activists and opposition representatives, have been targeted with advanced spyware since the beginning…
Read more →Turkish authorities have launched a large-scale crackdown targeting LGBTI+ organisations, activists and human rights defenders, involving coordinated raids, detentions and restrictions on online content across…
Read more →At least 203 people were fined between 2021 and 2025 for content posted on social media and online portals under local public-order regulations in several…
Read more →Anti-government demonstrations in Albania have continued for more than 100 consecutive days, developing into a sustained protest movement centred on concerns over environmental protection, corruption…
Read more →The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) has published Civil Society in Numbers 2025, analysing the financial, economic and social position of the 100 largest…
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