News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The Expert Council on NGO Law of the Conference of INGOs has just published a review on international standards relating to reporting and disclosure requirements for NGOs. The review is prepared against the background of the perceived trend of Member States imposing onerous reporting and disclosure requirements on NGOs. It is hoped that this publication
Read more →Capping a three-year process, the United Nations Statistics Division has released the final edited version of the United Nations Satellite Account on Nonprofit and Related Institutions and Volunteer Work —a groundbreaking statistical guidance manual for nations to use to generate solid data on the world’s third, or social economy, sector—the TSE Sector. This Handbook offers
Read more →On 24 October 2016, the CIVICUS Monitor went live. Two years on, there are ratings for 196 countries, over 1,500 individual updates on civic space have been published and 365,652 views by 73,944 people have been attracted! BCSDN has been part of the Monitor since its beginning, providing updates on civic space in the Western Balkan
Read more →TUSEV has launched the website of Monitoring and Enhancing the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Project. The project, which is funded by European Union and carried out by TUSEV under Civil Society Law Reform Program Area, aims to contribute to the enhancement of an enabling legal and fiscal environment for CSOs in Turkey and to
Read more →The 9th of December 2018 marks 20 years since global leaders adopted the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. This was a major victory for the human rights movement as the international community finally gave due recognition to those brave individuals who devote their lives to fighting for all of our rights. Unfortunately, twenty years after
Read more →Ahead of the G20 summit in November 2018 in Buenos Aires, the Global NPO Coalition sent a letter to the G20 and its members, asking them to take global leadership on reducing bank de-risking, ensuring that all entities, including NPOs, have equal access to financial services. Through a communique at the November summit, the G-20
Read more →The government violated the Law on Amendments to NGOs in all segments of financial support to NGOs and disassembled this process, said Ana Novakovic, CRNVO Executive Director. As Novakovic said, the Law obliges ministries that will finance projects of NGOs, by 1 June of the current year, to propose priority areas for financing in the
Read more →The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recently published Guidelines on effectively implementing the right to participate in public affairs. Various dimensions of that right are covered, with a focus on participation in electoral processes, in non-electoral contexts and at the international level, and
Read more →In a joint report, Access Now, Civil Liberties Union for Europe and European Digital Rights have evaluated the Report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online, as well as related EU policy documents, to address the issue of the intentional dissemination of information that is designed to have an impact on
Read more →The Handbook on Registering a Civil Society Organization provides comparative information on incorporation and operation in 10 selected countries in Europe and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Lebanon, Sweden, Tunisia and Turkey. Each country note is broken down into 10 thematic subsections that contains specific, detailed requirements
Read more →On 9 October 2018, the Government of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia adopted the Strategy for cooperation with and development of the civil society, as well as the Action Plan 2018-2020. The Strategy is based on the results achieved so far, but it also elaborates a framework for future activities that will enable
Read more →The Coalition Saradnjom do Cilja (Co-operation to the goal), which consists of 100 NGOs, demands from the Ministry of Public Administration to urgently announce a call for co-financing projects and programs of NGOs financed from EU funds, and thus fulfill its legal obligation. The Government of Montenegro has adopted a Regulation on the procedure of co-financing
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