Report on Slovenian civic space produced by the European Civic Forum for CIVICUS monitor. Background On 13th March 2020, only one day after the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic in…
On 16 October, Samuel Paty, a teacher in Conflans, France, was murdered after showing his students caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. This horrendous act was followed by statements against some civil…
Instead of considering the NGO sector as a valuable collaborator, the state, faced with criticism, most often conducts campaigns of appeasement, attacks and pressure on these independent organizations. At a panel discussion…
UPDATE - 9 September 2020: Polish ministers propose law making NGOs declare foreign funding and creating public register Extract from an article written by Juliette Bretan, published on Notes from Poland…
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,…