The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, is calling on civil society to respond to a questionnaire about their accomplishments over the past ten years. Mr. Kiai will highlight positive developments submitted in questionnaires in the Special Rapporteur’s final thematic report to the 35th session…
The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) has published new flashcards that assess the state of the right to freedom of assembly in five different Western Balkans countries. The flashcards were created as a supplementary tool to help communicate information from ECNL’s country reports, which are part of the Western Balkans Assembly Monitor project under…
On November 3, 2016, Kenyan authorities led a “violent clampdown” on peaceful, anti-corruption protestors in Nairobi, Kenya. Around 200 Kenyan protesters gathered to speak out against alleged corruption within the country’s Ministry of Health, which was recently accused of misusing public funds. Demonstrators called upon the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, to resign or take…
Bangladeshi civil society leaders call for amendments to the NGO bill at the Oct. 9 press conference (photo source: The Daily Star). On October 9, Bangladeshi activists convened a press conference to criticize a draft bill introduced by the parliament called the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Bill. Under Section 14 of the Bill, the…