People of Slovenia took to the streets for over 20 consecutive weeks to protest against the right-wing government and its corruption scandals, which have erupted since it took office in…
- Unofficial translation of press release from Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, accessible in French here. While the state of emergency constitutes an anomaly in a state of law, distorts public…
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…
Article originally published in Balkan Insights with Civic Space Watch information on 28 October 2020. A group of NGOs told abruptly to quit the building they have used for decades…
Article originally published by Autocracy Analyst on 30 September 2020. In June, the highest court in the European Union ruled that Hungary’s Foreign Agent Law requiring NGOs with foreign funding…
Analysis for Civic Space Watch by Zahari Iankov, lawyer, Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law Context – Political Actions Since the end of the initial state of emergency in relation to COVID-19 and the easing of…
Article originally published in Spanish in elDiario.es. Since last Friday the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced the selective closure of 37 areas in the region…
In the aftermath of the protests that occured in Serbia this week, many demonstrators, journalists and organisations denounced the “most violent police repression since Milosevic era”. In this regard, the…
(Extract from Total Slovenia News, 6 June 2020, Read the entire article here) Despite the stormy weather, anti-government protesters on bicycles hit the streets of several Slovenian towns for the…
Since late 2018, in France repeated demonstrations brought to the streets tens of thousands people, some reaching peaks of over a million people protesting across the country. They were part…