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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…
Ireland’s quiet revolution wins freedom of choice
On May 25, 2018, the people of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of women’s right to choose whether to give birth or not. This attests…
Armenian Dream Come True
Citizens in Armenia imagined a free country and took their responsibility to build it, says Haykuhi Harutyunyan, president of Protection of Rights Without Borders, who…
Foreign Agents or True Patriots
It is a duty of every patriot to love and protect the nature of their homeland. Instead of recognition, however, Russian environmentalists get labelled as…
