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Europe experiencing “dangerous rollback of civic freedoms”, warns damning new report in “wake-up call” to EU leaders
Rise of far-right accompanied by a deliberate strategy to delegitimise civil society, through smear campaigns, SLAPPs, and restrictive “foreign agents” legislation Right to protest increasingly under attack, with Palestine solidarity and environmental justice campaigners targeted Government ministers in several states question international human rights law Europe is experiencing a dangerous rollback of civic freedoms,…...
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Survey on the COVID-19 impact on fundamental rights and civic space
As part of a research conducted jointly by Civil Society Europe, European Civic Forum, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law and Institute for Public Affairs and commissioned by the European Economic...
5 new members join the ECF !
The ECF held its General Assembly on 24 June, with more than 40 member organisations present online. This was also an opportunity to approve the membership of 5 new organisations from 5 different...
STATEMENT ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION FOR AFGHANS
– Statement by the RISE Network, published on 18 August 2021, available here. We the RISE network, Refugees' Ideas & Solutions for Europe, as an alliance of...
ECF condemns the liquidation of 50+ NGOs in Belarus and asks the EU to renew strong pressure on
On 22 July, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to liquidate over 50 NGOs in Belarus. This comes after Lukashenko vowed to continue what he called a “mopping-up operation” against civil society...
NEW EUROPEANS: Stand up for free speech in Belarus
Image: Screenshot from NBC news, Belarus rights Activist, Jana Showstak. Event: Monday 9 August 2021, 10:00-12:30 On 23 May 2021, the Lukashenko regime forced Ryan Air Flight 4978 from Athens to...
EC RULE OF LAW REPORT FINDS CIVIC ACTORS FACE “SERIOUS CHALLENGES”: IT’S TIME FOR THE COMMISSION
On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published the second rule of law report covering events taking place in 2020 and early 2021. The report maintains the same methodology adopted in the previous...
Genova 20 Years On – Interview with Prof. Salvatore Palidda
20 years ago, a movement of protest and proposal, organized on a global scale, took to the streets of Genova alongside the G8. It was the continuation of the reflections started in Seattle in 1999. It...
GENOVA 2021: YOU THE DISEASE, WE THE CARE
Appeal by Genoa 2021 coalition, published on 20 May, available here. Twenty years after the G8 in Genoa. Without memory there is no future: we feel the duty, as well as the right, to remember...
L’UNION DES SANS-PAPIERS RECEIVES CIVIC PRIDE AWARD FROM EUROPEAN CIVIC FORUM
PRESS RELEASE - 13 July 2021 L’UNION DES SANS-PAPIERS RECEIVES CIVIC PRIDE AWARD FROM EUROPEAN CIVIC FORUM Version française Around 500 undocumented people have occupied the Beguinage church...