News and updates from BCSDN and the region
EU leaders must live up to their commitments to European values in responding to migration and stop copying xenophobic populist recipes, more than 160 CSOs said in a joint statement. The organizations are calling for strong leadership to uphold the rights and values that have been the founding principles of the European Union for 60
Read more →Leading monitors of freedom of expression around the world have come together to issue a Joint Declaration on freedom of expression, focusing this year on so-called fake news, disinformation and propaganda. “Fake news” has emerged as a global topic of concern and there is a risk that efforts to counter it could lead to censorship,
Read more →Across the world there is a growing trend of countries restricting citizens’ freedoms or making the work of civil society groups more difficult and dangerous, for ex. increased surveillance on ordinary citizens, activists and CSOs and targeted attacks and arrests. Furthermore, civil society activists, journalists and human rights defenders face escalating intimidation, harassment and reprisals,
Read more →At a time of global uncertainty, the UN is stretched to the breaking point. More and more people are losing faith in institutions and political leadership, and nationalistic trends are presenting a grave challenge to the rules-based international system from which all benefit. Public support for the UN is vital if a multilateral order is
Read more →Feedback Labs aims to change the norms in development, aid, and philanthropic policy to be more responsive to the people that those policies aim to help. We are at a critical point in history where prioritizing constituencies’ feedback has the potential to unleash massive, timely, and necessary changes in the way development is pursued. While
Read more →The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute, through supporting civil society organisations, to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and to contribute to the strengthening of the international framework for the promotion and protection of human rights, justice and the rule of law. The specific objectives of
Read more →Center for Civil Communications (CCC) in collaboration with the NGO Infocentre and BIRN Macedonia as part of the project “Investigative Journalism for encouraging reforms,” funded by the European Union through the program to support civil society and media freedom in 2014, announce the call for Applications for civil society organizations (CSOs) for actions related to
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Read more →The European Social Enterprise Law Association is an international network of social enterprise experts, with members ranging from law firms through academic institutions to expert individuals. The ESELA Annual Conference will be taking place this year on 28 April in Brussels on the theme of ‘Teaming Up in the Middle: How Business and Not for Profits Jointly
Read more →BCSDN has once again laid out in its Position on how this new phase of EU regional support to civil society should look like. EU should maintain a genuine regional approach and efforts so as to achieve greater in-country effectiveness, while remaining linked to the common objective for these countries. EU support should focus on
Read more →The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that trust is in crisis around the world. The general population’s trust in all four key sectors — business, government, CSOs, and media — has declined broadly, a phenomenon not reported since Edelman began tracking trust in these segments in 2012. With the decline of trust, the majority of
Read more →Kosovo, in its latest endeavor to further improve the inclusion of civil society in public decision making, has launched a new online platform for Consultation with the Public. The promotion of said platform was held on 22th February in Prishtina. Through this online platform the Kosovo government will seek to facilitate the communication between the
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