HRW Research Finds Media Freedom in Western Balkans under Serious Threat
After almost a year of research in the region and in-depth interviews with over 80 journalists, editors, and independent media owners, Human Rights Watch released…
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OCDoskop: Comprehensive Web Platform for Civil Society in Serbia
Office for Cooperation with Civil Society in Serbia has developed an interactive web platform OCDoskop, within the “Civil Society Enabling Environment” project, aiming to offer…
Read more →The Clampdown on Resourcing: Comparing Civil Society and Business
Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly & association and Maria Leissner, Secretary General of the Community of Democracies, published recently: The clampdown…
Read more →CIVICUS Civil Society Watch: CS Rights Violated in 96 Countries
A new global report by CIVICUS finds that rights of civil society were violated in almost half of the world’s 193 countries in 2014. In…
Read more →ECtHR: Right to Access Information is an Essential Part of Free Expression
ARTICLE19 have submitted a third party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the case of MAGYAR HELSINKI BIZOTTSÁG v HUNGARY. The core…
Read more →CIVICUS New Approach: The Civic Space Monitor
CIVICUS is taking a new approach to tracking the quality of civic space in real time. They intend to do this by combining analysis of…
Read more →Experimenting “Bottom-up Europeanization”: EU’s Support to Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries
The role of CSOs has come to the forefront of the European political and normative debate, signified as a remedy to solve the democratic deficit…
Read more →New Report: Regional State of Play of Civil Society in 2014
According to the recently published Monitoring Matrix Regional Report for 2014, the legal environment for CSOs in the Western Balkans and Türkiye remained relatively stable.…
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Norms over Forms: Civil Society Development in the Enlargement Process Debated in the EP
On 4th June, 2015 BCSDN organized a debate at the European Parliament to present to MEPs and other key EU stakeholders the state in which civil…
Read more →UN Special Rapporteur Factsheet: Civil Society’s Ability to Access Resources
The UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s announced the release of the latest in the factsheet series: An instalment on civil society’s ability to access resources.…
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Participation of Civil Society Concerns at Vienna Western Balkans Summit Initiated
On 26th May, 2015, European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) organized a working workshop under the title “Culture of Regional Cooperation” in the framework of…
Read more →Turkish Court Rules Peaceful Demonstrators Do Not Need Permission
An Istanbul court that acquitted 26 people detained during the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013 has stated in its reasoned ruling that…
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