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We are a diverse network of human rights activists with a presence in 18 countries across Europe.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is Ireland’s leading independent human rights monitoring body.
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Associazione Antigone
Civil Rights Defenders
Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia
Rights International Spain
The League of Human Rights
Estonian Human Rights Centre
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Society for Civil Rights
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Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Belgian League of Human Rights
The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee
Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten
The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
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Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
Human Rights Monitoring Institute
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Targeted Political Advertising
We Campaign To Ban Political Advertising
To safeguard free and fair elections, we advocate for limiting online political targeting methods to the minimum.
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Media Freedom Report 2022
Decline in Media Freedom Across Europe, Some Countries Follow Putin's Playbook
Decline in Media Freedom Across Europe, Some Countries Follow Putin's Playbook
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Digital Rights Groups Oppose Media Privilege: Joint Statement on EMFA
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Liberties’ Take To Make Media Freedom Stronger In The EU: EMFA Policy Brief
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Access to Information: Definition, Importance, Expansion
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- Created the largest fund for democracy groups in the EU
- Got new powers to cut off EU funding to autocrats
- Written new EU rules to protect journalists & campaigners from bogus lawsuits
- Trained over 400 rights defenders to supercharge the campaigns you care for
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We are a passionate team of advocacy and communications professionals protecting and promoting your fundamental human rights.
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"Europe Day is an occasion to remind ourselves that what unites us is greater than what divides us. The EU gives people a way to come together across national, cultural and religious differences to pursue values we all share, like democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights" says our op-ed in EUObserver.
The primary purpose of the DSA is to check the power of Big Tech and make the internet a safer place for everyday users, claim Liberties' Eva Simon and Jonathan Day in their opinion piece in EurActiv.
In its report, the Berlin-based Civil Liberties Union for Europe said that countries such as Hungary, Poland or Slovenia had used the pandemic to strengthen their hold on power and limit criticism of the government.
A new report from the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, based in Germany, suggests that the pandemic has played an important part in weakening democracy across the continent.
“Beyond being a distraction from the task of vaccination, the pass could end up creating a two-tier society,” Israel Butler of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, a human rights watchdog, said about the EU Commission's vaccine pass plan.
“The recommendation is a good start, but the Commission should go further and implement concrete safeguards into EU law, similar to what it intends to do as a means to counter strategic lawsuits against journalists,” Eva Simon, senior advocacy officer at the Civil Liberties Union For Europe, said in a statement.
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