News and updates from BCSDN and the region
On 28-29 October in Skopje, Macedonia, BCSDN organized a workshop on the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development. At the two-day workshop, member organizations from the Western Balkan region and Turkey reflected on the previous experience of implementing the Monitoring Matrix and discussed the next phase of implementation. Participants engaged in discussions
Read more →The 12th edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum took place between the 23rd – 25th of October 2019, in Istanbul, Turkey and was organized by the Romanian NGDO Platform (FOND) in partnership with the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University), with financial support of the European Union. This year’s edition aimed
Read more →CSOs are innovators, testing new approaches to both traditional and emerging problems. One of today’s issues creating an unprecedented challenge to civil society is the rise of populist leaders and their pervasive rhetoric, in different parts of the world. Populists have been adept at winning hearts and minds and creating or mining divisions in society,
Read more →Recent election interference cases have put social media at the centre of attention. These events exposed the risks posed by actors manipulating political perceptions through disinformation or hate speech and spreading their messages using bots or political advertising. The EU’s Guide for Civil Society on Monitoring Social Media During Elections, prepared by DRI, helps readers
Read more →On 15 October 2019, Civic Initiative published the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development Country Report for Serbia 2017/ 2018. The Monitoring…
Read more →CIVICUS has downgraded Serbia’s civic space rating from Narrowed to Obstructed. The decision was taken following a thorough assessment of the state of civic freedoms in the country as protected by international law. The downgrade follows CIVICUS regular monitoring of the situation with its members and partners, after the government has taken a number of
Read more →CIVICUS has downgraded Serbia’s civic space rating from Narrowed to Obstructed. The decision was taken following a thorough assessment of the state of civic freedoms in the country as protected by international law. The downgrade follows CIVICUS’ regular monitoring of the situation with our members and partners, after the government has taken a number of
Read more →In the eve of International Day for Universal Access to Information, 44 NGOs signed an open letter to the Prime Minister of Montenegro and the Minister of Public Administration, requesting that they abandon the proposed amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information that introduce new restrictions and drastically reduce the transparency of institutions,
Read more →Based on a unique methodology, the CSO Meter has been designed to support regular and consistent monitoring of civil society environment in the EaP countries. The CSO Meter evaluates CSOs’ legal framework as well as the situation in practice in 10 areas, such as freedom of association, assembly and expression, access to funding or the
Read more →The Opinion states that despite the EU efforts for improved space for CSO activism in recent years and EU financial support, there is still a necessity for greater EU effectiveness and efficiency, stronger financial as well as political support that would contribute to a strong civil society that holds the governments accountable, and is a
Read more →During the last two years, the S&D Group in the European Parliament devoted an immense amount of political will and energy to the launch of the Progressive Society initiative, which is designed to put the fight against all forms of inequalities at the centre of our political action, break policy silos and design a new
Read more →The People’s Assembly brought together people’s representatives and civil society from around the world to give grassroots and marginalized people a voice. The People’s Assembly is a space for all to jointly analyze the structural reasons for the injustices, act and plan for common future actions to create systemic change to achieve the Sustainable Development
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