News and updates from BCSDN and the region
BCSDN annual debate on the state of the enabling environment in which civil society in Enlargement countries operates under the title: “Raising Standards, Declining Trends?…
Read more →BCSDN internal Monitoring Matrix sustainability workshop took place on the 5-6 September in Brussels. BCSDN members, those directly involved in the monitoring and the advocacy…
Read more →The specific objectives of this call for proposals are to support civil society and human rights defenders working outside the EU in five key areas of human rights corresponding to the five recurring lots of 2014-2017 EIDHR global calls for proposals: Lot 1: support to women Human Rights Defenders and/or Human Rights Defenders working for women’s
Read more →ODIHR is pleased to offer a five-day training event on human rights monitoring and safety and security for human rights defenders from Western Balkans, Central/Eastern Europe and Turkey. The objective of the training is to enable human rights defenders to independently carry out quality, objective and impartial human rights monitoring activities. The event will take place in
Read more →The 22nd Issue 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 you can read about: USA visit: Inequality casts dark shadow over assembly and association rights, UN experts urge Turkey to adhere
Read more →Most activists and social change leaders today would argue that a sustainable future will only be possible by making profound changes to our lives and our political and economic systems. But for many activists terms like system change, Great Transition, paradigm shift are too big, too utopian or too abstract and very difficult to be
Read more →The European Commission (EC) is a significant source of funding for NGOs worldwide. Its regular calls for proposals and other grant opportunities offer a substantial amount of funding resources for NGOs. Мany CSOs avoid applying for funding because of the complexity and highly competitive nature of the EC grant system. The funding guidelines can be
Read more →The report on the debate “Only a matter for politicians? Civil society, money and political activities”, which was organised by the Conference of INGOs on 6 and 7 June is now available online here. The debate considered three interrelated dimensions – freedom of association, political activities of CSOs and foreign funding for CSOs – which
Read more →The Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education (EP-NUFFIC) offers fellowships to participate in training courses in the Netherlands. The aim is to promote capacity building within organizations in eligible countries via training and education for professionals. This is initiated and (almost) fully funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget
Read more →Democracy must be fought for, revitalized, and renewed. Institutions, like the Heinrich Böll Foundation, have been struggling against a significant headwind for some time now, as the authoritarian developing state has gained massive momentum. With the publication “For Democracy” and this online-dossier, the state of democracy worldwide has been analysed, as well as the possibilities
Read more →The Global Human Rights Forums is a series of transformative conferences designed to influence a shift of paradigm of human rights as something divided into slices be privileged individuals and groups. This year theme topic is “Decoding Patterns of Privilege”, and will focus on the challenges of privilege, explaining the difficulties that people affected by
Read more →The event is organized with the occasion of the presentation of the 2015 Monitoring Matrix Regional Report and will bring CSO representatives from Western Balkans and Turkey to present the key challenges for the civil society operating environment in their countries. The aim is to raise a discussion with the Commission, other EU institutions and
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