News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The 2016 edition of the CSO Forum held on 17-18 March, Brussels, and organized back-to-back with other events, brought together CSOs both from the international development and human rights field from all over the world. The aim of the forum was to advance the implementation of the EU policy shift towards supporting the enabling environment,
Read more →The Ministry of Information Society and Administration together with TACSO Office Macedonia/MCIC held a conference on 23-24 March, 2016, Skopje on Open Government Partnership (OGP) achievements in Macedonia and designing a new Government Action Plan 2016-2018. Among the 50 participants from relevant public institutions and CSOs, BCSDN’s Executive Director Tanja Hafner Ademi was also present
Read more →On 23rd March, 2016, Albania officially launched the National OGP Multi-stakeholder Forum “OpenAlb”. Albania is a member of the OGP since 2011 and is currently implementing the 2nd National Action Plan 2014-2016. The Multi-Stakeholder Forum aims at bringing together representatives of government, CSOs and interest groups to enter a dialogue in securing concrete commitments to
Read more →The Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Republic of Croatia launched a call for public hearings announcing the beginning of the process for the creation of the National Strategy for Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2017-2021. Aiming to create as inclusive process as possible, and simultaneously get feedback from CSOs about the obstacles
Read more →CIVICUS spoke to Liana Varon, the Deputy Secretary General of the Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TUSEV) – BCSDN member and a network of over 100 foundations and associations in Turkey, on the situation concerning freedom of expression and the environment for CSOs. Liana Varon elaborated the case on the arrest of 27 academics early
Read more →Since 2009, CNVOS has been implementing a project on violations of the resolution on legislative activity which requires a minimum of 30 days public consultation for all new legislation, measuring for how many times has the resolution been violated by the government as well as each of the separate ministries. Strikingly, out of 771 published
Read more →CRNVO has presented a database of CSO representatives in the working groups and other working bodies formed by the state administration in accordance with the Regulation on the procedure for cooperation between the state institutions and CSOs. This database, developed together with the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs in Montenegro, contains all relevant information
Read more →Issue No. 19 of the Assembly and Association Briefing, the newsletter of Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, has been published. In this issue, the UN rapporteurs provide a roadmap to avoid human rights violations during protests, whereas UN experts urge Western Australia not to
Read more →As part of their ongoing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Project, NonProfit Quarterly and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network started to publish articles on justice and diversity in US. The first article is dedicated to exclusion of young and emerging movements and organizations that deal with civic engagement and empowerment in underrepresented communities from donors’
Read more →This handbook aims to provide guidance for the police in facilitating the right to assemble peacefully. The handbook has been written primarily for police officers working in the OSCE area who have command responsibilities, at any level, for the policing of public assemblies. The handbook outlines key steps and principles for careful police work with
Read more →A common conceptualization is an important milestone towards measuring the third sector in Europe as there remains a kind of conceptual ambiguity about the manifold types of entities that co-exist in the third sector. The achievement of conceptual clarification is a key objective of the TSI project and the second TSI working paper reports on
Read more →A vast gap exists between the rights guaranteed by the EU in the key EU treaties and the exercise of these rights. Unclear laws, disempowerment or fear of reprisal can prevent people from knowing and enjoying their rights. The EU’s main response to ensure that these values are upheld are through Article 11 of the
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