Updates

The draft addresses key CSO Meter recommendations. However, a mandatory contract between the volunteer and the host organisation - even for short-term volunteers - remains an issue.

CSOs request the Parliament to consider their recommendations and revise the draft to be clearer and less restrictive.

The new programme would enable more input from CSOs in decision-making, and increase their financial sustainability.

Intercommunity Development Associations will become effectively functional starting from this year.

Changes will affect civil society members and CSOs conducting media activities, threatening with high penalties for violating vaguely worded provisions.

Demonstartions continued until process of dropping the bill was clarified.

Latest updates on the draft legislations that would label CSOs and media outlets as foreign agents.

The draft Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence may derail Georgia’s EU accession plans.

Counter-terrorism financing measures need to be based on evidence of existing risk and targeted to it, not broad, blanket restrictions.

The draft amendments would allow the government to partially or fully block access to internet and censor information and social media in times of war.

Although there are more contributors than ever before, the mechanism is still far from reaching full potential.

New measures proposed in the bill would negatively affect public associations and significantly complicate conditions for opposition parties.