News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Half the money the European Union spends on aid is wasted, stolen or held up by incompetence, a report has warned. The study by MEPs…
Read more →UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai released his mandate’s second-ever annual report, “2015: The Year in Assembly & Association Rights.” The report tells the story of 2015…
Read more →The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is just four years old, but already has the potential to help fight against restrictions on civil society space. It…
Read more →On 3rd-4th December 2015, the 17th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights organized by the European External Action Service (EEAS), European Commission and Human Rights and…
Read more →UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai has joined with Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre to…
Read more →On 5th October, 2015 a seminar about the development of international guidance on a coherent set of financial reporting standards was held by CIPFA. Built…
Read more →Civil society’s contributions to a nation’s wellbeing are just as important as those made by businesses, UN expert Maina Kiai told the UN General Assembly…
Read more →Civil society groups and organisations are facing an unprecedented crackdown in a number of authoritarian and democratic countries. From Myanmar to Mexico, a viral wave…
Read more →Between 27th and 29th October, around 2000 representatives of governments, civil society, business and academia gathered in Mexico City to mark 4 years since the…
Read more →The Serbian Government Office for Cooperation with Civil Society has announced the launch of an online platform aimed at sharing and exchanging information relevant for…
Read more →This publication aims to provide the reader with a comparative overview of the diverse legal and fiscal environments of foundations in 40 countries across wider…
Read more →In a commentary for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Maina Kiai, UN Sepcial Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and…
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