Representatives from governments, academia, civil society and international organizations will gather at the annual Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2016 which will take place in Paris, France on December 7-9. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative, which currently brings together 69 member states, non-governmental organizations, and representatives from civil society in a…
The Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD) issued an announcement regarding the alarming trend of abductions and murders of human rights defenders’ relatives in Honduras. The statement was in response to the May 13 abduction and murder of Allan Yoni Banegas Godoy, nephew of the Executive Director of the Association for a Better…
Over the last several weeks, the Government of Sudan has made an effort to obstruct the engagement of civil society activists in a United Nations (UN)-led human rights review of the country. In a statement on March 31, 2016, 37 Sudanese and international organizations deemed this practice unacceptable and argued that it shows the…
On April 12, the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Legislation of Kyrgyzstan considered a draft foreign agents law and issued a resolution to recommend the draft law for parliamentary consideration. The Committee considered the draft law and made its resolution in a short time. The participating NGOs did not have opportunity to speak during the…