(Environmental Pillar) IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ireland’s leading environmental coalition is shocked at the Minister for Housing’s attempt to press for new planning legislation that would make it near impossible to challenge…
(Ekathimerini.com) Non-governmental organizations that work with refugees and migrants in Greece were given 10 days on Tuesday to register with the Citizen Protection Ministry, or risk being banned from operating…
(Council of Europe) On behalf of the Conference of INGOs and its Expert Council on NGO Law, we express our concern regarding legal proceedings for de-registration of the Bulgarian Helsinki…
🔸El real decreto-ley 14/2019 permite que el Gobierno cierre páginas web para prevenir desórdenes públicos. 🔸Los desórdenes públicos son uno de los tipos penales que más habitualmente se imputa a…
(featured photo: rally in Italy in favour of sea rescue by Repstatic.it) (ECNL) On 5 August 2019, the Italian Parliament passed that a law that increases punishment for offences and…
(CIVICUS MONITOR) [...] Romanian investigative journalist Emilia Șercan receives death threats https://t.co/fRWgcCaahv — Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) April 18, 2019 Investigative journalist subjected to death threats On 15th April…
A new Security Decree is currently under discussion, targeting search and rescue NGOs as well as other forms of dissent.(Translated with DeepL from Italian - Contropiano) Reiterating the scheme of…
(Polish Helsinki Committee) Since the beginning of 2016 the civil society sector has faced numerous challenges detrimental to its works that has and limited its ability to perform its role of…
(Council of Europe) Today the Commissioner published a letter she addressed to the Chairwoman of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community of the Parliament of Germany, Andrea Lindholz, in…
(European Civic Forum on CIVICUS Monitor) On 12th February 2019, two problematic freedom of expression bills – the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill and the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill - were…