Updates

After two years of inactivity the Certification Commission for Public Benefit Status resumed its activity and in June 2022 issued the first decision to attribute public benefit status to 25 CSOs.

This can create legal grounds for the persecution of thousands of trade union members across the country.

The Parliament amended the Code of audiovisual media services to prevent and combat disinformation and spread of false information in the media.

CSOs expect this to be an important step towards philanthropy becoming a significant source of funding in the long run.

ECNL at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting emphasized that even in emergency situations states can and must enable freedom of association in the EaP region.

New amendments negatively affect CSO's freedom of association.

The event addressed trends in the environment Armenian CSOs operate in and identified possible directions of improvement.

Experts warn that the amenments approved by the government are not in line with international standards, generate uneven or erroneous interpretations.

In the past 2 years authorities have listed dozens of Belarusian citizens as involved in terrorism and identified a number of organisations as terrorist organisations.

Summary of developments that affect civil society environment in Ukraine under the areas of the CSO Meter.

The new law will bring protections for CSOs working on LGBTQI or ethnic minority issues, who are often target of discourses that incite prejudice-based violence.

State security raided independent trade unions and arrested their leaders in Belarus.