The International Center for Not-for-Profit-Law (ICNL), an organization that supports the legal environment of civil society around the world, released their annual 2015-2016 report entitled “Protecting Civic Freedom.” In the report, ICNL highlights their efforts to defend civil society organizations’ (CSOs) right to access resources through policy recommendations produced by the inter-governmental group, Financial Action…
On January 3, the Burundi Ministry of Interior accused ITEKA League (ITEKA), a Burundi-based civil society organization, of harming the country’s reputation, and removed ITEKA from the list of NGOs allowed to work in Burundi. This past December also marked one year since Marie Claudette Kwizera, the treasurer of ITEKA, went missing; her disappearance prompted the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)…
A new interactive “Democracy Resource Hub” was recently launched to introduce today’s different forms of digital democracy. The Resource Hub posits that digital democracy is “the future of democratic governance” and an effective asset for traditional structures to utilize. Chronicling theoretical developments of digital democracy, the Hub highlights prominent men and women that have engineered…
The Sudan government has continued to escalate its assaults against civil society, most notably with the recent arrests of several Sudanese activists. In December, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) authorities arrested human rights lawyer Tasneem Ahmed Taha, as well as three other lawyers, a move which prompted more than 200 lawyers to sign a petition…