Continuing a trend of troubling rhetoric and legislation from Hungary, the government has resubmitted a bill “to introduce a 25% tax on aid groups it says support migration.” Learn more here.
Read the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Guidelines on Freedom of Association, which protects your legal right to access foreign and domestic funding in Section VI.
On October 13, 2017, the Ugandan government froze the financial accounts of ActionAid Uganda, a vocal opponent of the Age Limit Bill, and accused the civil society organization (CSO) of conducting illegal activities. ActionAid Uganda is one of several organizations, including Solidarity Uganda and the Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies (GLISS), recently targeted by…
Last month, civil society organizations across Uganda endured office raids by the country’s police, who spent hours removing documents and confiscating phones and laptops. The raids in Uganda offer insight into a deeper—and troubling—trend: in many parts of the world, civil society organizations are experiencing a crackdown by governments that are increasingly turning to bureaucratic…