By taking control of how civil society funding is distributed, the government can severely hinder the work of organisations it doesn’t approve of.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Belgium - December 2017

Spain's Supreme Court has confirmed a one-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down for retweeting messages or images supporting ETA or paying hommage to its members. The Court ruled that the retweets break a law...

Over 10.000 protesters went into the streets of cities across Romania to denounce the government's backtracking on efforts to fight corruption. They demanded the withdrawal of draft legislation that would overhaul the...

The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, appears set to tell EU leaders that Brussels is prepared to abandon the scheme that compels member states to accept quotas of refugees. Tusk will tell leaders at a...

A network of more than 90 human rights groups convened in Vienna to discuss the best ways to strengthen the voice of civil society within the world's largest security-focused intergovernmental organisation. Here is what they come up with.

We celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, during which we recall the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We should protect them - they are our human rights. To celebrate this...

A sharp drop in successful asylum applications in Denmark means the country now has one of the lowest approval rates in the European Union. Only 26% of the submitted applications were successful in the second quarter...

Poland's National Broadcasting Council has fined the private television channel TVN for its coverage of opposition demonstrations in Warsaw last year. The council said the station's coverage had 'promoted illegal...

Oxfam, a non-governmental charity organisation, said last week that Greece intends to move about 5,000 migrants from the Greek islands to the mainland. Nicola Bay, the head of Oxfam's mission in Greece, called the...