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Less Rights for Citizens
Bulgaria’s civil society celebrated a major victory for nature protection and the rule of law when the country’s Supreme Administrative Court ultimately rejected an environmental…
Expensive Trash
Minority members of the Romanian Parliament are struggling to promote dialogue with civil society on waste management at a time when the majority in power…
Back in Black
Polish fight for women’s rights dressed in black in 2016 when hundreds of thousands of women stood against a restrictive anti-abortion bill. In March 2018…
Dirty Wars
Repressive legislation, negative media coverage, lack of recognition and imposition of service functions—having to deal with issues that are normally the responsibility of the state such…
Journalists surrender to silence easier in Eastern Europe than in Pakistan
Sir: While self-censorship is more or less understandable for journalists, who are considerably more exposed to muzzles, harassment, threats and violence – such as Pakistan…
Refugee-Fear Politics Targets NGOs
While the numbers of refugees entering Europe decrease, political hysteria against them is on the rise. Civil society advocates and humanitarian organisations helping migrants are…
One Life to Protect Nature
On the way back from a public inspection of an illegal construction in a protected area on 28 December, 2017, strangers attacked and brutally beat…
Washington’s political lobbying shackles science
Money talks, says a study of Washington’s political lobbying and its influence on climate change law. Most of the most vocal money comes from big…
The Voice of the Trees
Local people and civil society groups have stood in protest against construction at the historic City Park of Budapest. The project is one of several…
Orbán continues war against civil society
In the first major legislative moves since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won reelection this spring, the Hungarian Parliament on June 20 passed a package of…
