Tensions on the Greek islands have been skyrocketing in the last month following an aggressive government-led smear campaign against volunteers and NGOs helping migrants and refugees. The government has accused…
Over sixty Bulgarian NGOs alert of a new wave of attacks against civil society organizations taking place in Bulgaria. Since early 2018, the Bulgarian democratic civil society has experienced an…
In July 2019, we interviewed Silver Tambur from Kõigi Eesti, a group of people living in Estonia who successfully mobilised thousands online and offline to send a strong message of…
Article originally published on Civicus Monitor, 31 December EXPRESSION On 9th November 2019, 84 graves in a historical Jewish graveyard in Jutland, Denmark were vandalised with green paint. Some tombstones were also…
(UPDATE - 15 Janaury 2020) Hungarian government finally apologised to @hhc_helsinki after we successfully sued the PM Cabinet Office, at all 3 court levels, for having published misleading statements about…
(Civitates) “If the media repeats negative messages about Bulgarian NGOs time after time, people start to believe them.”- Iva Taralezhkova, Board Chair of the Citizen Participation Forum For several years now,…
On 12 July, during an interview on the radio programme Good Morning, Hungary! Viktor Orbán stated: "Up to now what EU leaders and pro-immigration politicians have been doing is stuffing…
(European Civic Forum for Civicus Monitor) Eestis juba ei sobi avalikult öelda, et rassistid on valitsuses. Välismeediat tsiteerides veel tohib. https://t.co/bWlhXchkmj — Vilja Kiisler (@ViljaKiisler) May 12, 2019 On 3rd…
(European Civic Forum on CIVICUS Monitor) In February 2019, the Administrative Court invalidated the environmental permit for the construction of a hydropower plant project called HPP Mokrice. The decision is in a…
(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…