(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…
UPDATE 13 March 2019: On 12 March, the Senate approved the law. The civic opposition and the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron have announced they will bring the law to…
UPDATE 13/03/2019: The coalition "Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung" (Translated: Legal certainty for political advocacy), bringing together over 80 CSOs to advocate for a change of the charity legislation, comments on the ruling:…
On 21 February, the Italian Think tank Centro Studi Politici e Strategici Machiavelli presented to the press room of the Chamber of Deputies a report called “NGOs and transparency -…
UPDATE 25 Mar. 2019: On 19 March, the Minister of Interior published the "Directive on the unified coordination of maritime border surveillance activities and the fight against illegal immigration". See…