Resilient Roots: conquering the feedback loop - Part 2 of 5: “Collect” By Isabelle Büchner (Accountable Now) and Belén Giaquinta (CIVICUS) In the first blog post of this series, we…
(Green European Journal) Is society ready to break with legal and political norms to tackle the climate crisis? Perhaps: in France, between the end of 2018 and the beginning of…
(HSFK & PRIF) In many countries around the world, civil society organizations are facing increasing restrictions that constrain their autonomy, capacity and/or freedom of action. While the general phenomenon of…
(POLITICO) Dariush Beigui has a day off, but he’s not happy about it. For much of the past four years, the German skipper of a refueling boat in the port…
(European Civic Forum for Balkan Civic Practices) In the recent years, multiple attacks on civic space and citizens’ resistance to concentration of power showed that, although the methods might differ from one…
(Social Europe) In the latest contribution to our ‘Europe2025’ series, Donatella della Porta argues that it has become increasingly difficult for social movements to envision another Europe from below. Progressive social…
(OpenDemocracy) Despite pain, loss, disruption and constant threats, the movement is winning. Now that the LGBTQ movement in the United States has reached the half-century mark, what can activists learn…
(OECD) By Thomas Carothers, Director, and Saskia Brechenmacher, Associate Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace This blog marks Civil Society Days (4-7 June 2019), including the International Conference…
(European Centre for Non-for-Profit Law) Did you know that 140 governments have adopted counter-terrorism legislation since 2001? And that research has shown there is no evidence legal restrictions on civil society reduce…
(Translated from German - Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung)The judgment in the ATTAC case by the [German] Federal Fiscal Court (BFH = Bundesfinanzhof) affects thousands of foundations (trusts) and associations. This judgment…