Mapping Civil Society Innovation Project Launches
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rights CoLab and Partners Join Forces to Map Civil Society Innovation to Advance Human Rights New Collaborative Website to Aid… Read More
NGOs Start Thinking Like Businesses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
NGOs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have shown resilience under pressure by inventing new ways to generate funds, including hybrid for-profit and non-profit models… Read More
Why We Need More Talk about ‘Closing Civic Space’ not Less
Michael Jarvis has argued that we should stop using the frame “closing civic space” because it’s too all encompassing and negative, and, in his… Read More
Podcast – The Business Case for Civil Society
Edwin Rekosh joined World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Talk to break down the roles that businesses and civil society organizations play in building a broad-based… Read More
Gaining Ground against Rising Illiberalism
One of the hallmarks of a new, populist form of political leadership at the national level, often described as illiberal democracy, has been a… Read More
The Business Case for Civil Society
Now more than ever, businesses have strong incentives to take seriously their responsibility to respect human rights. Human rights developments can spark stock price… Read More
Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Regulatory Attacks on NGOs
A wave of unjustified government regulation is threatening NGO operations. NGOs can proactively resist politically-motivated repression in several ways: actively managing their compliance risks; deploying paid… Read More
Gaining Ground: A Framework for Developing Strategies and Tactics in Response to Governmental Attacks on NGOs
This manual seeks to provide NGOs with relevant examples and resources to confront intensifying governmental restrictions. The document includes brief case studies from different countries, while… Read More
Rethinking CSO Business Models
The author describes his takeaways from discussions at the November 2017 Global Perspectives conference organized in Mexico City by the Berlin-based International Civil Society Centre. The… Read More
Rethinking the Human Rights Business Model
This report, authored by Edwin Rekosh and published by Center for Strategic and International Studies, investigates opportunities to diversify and broaden support (financial and otherwise) for… Read More
