
“Twelve years ago we were taking along our children to protest; today they are taking their children!” These words of George Daskalov describe best his…

Local residents did manage to close the landfill in the Leventsovka area of Rostov-on-Don, thank to decisive help from Russia’s military. As a result the…

LONDON, 21 March, 2019 − So Old Man River is getting a day in court: a growing international initiative is seeing to it that rivers gain…

Illiberal governments attack civil society because it is able to control them, argues professor Balazs Trencsenyi, Head of the Department of History at the Central…

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…

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…

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…

As many as 88% of Pakistani journalists self-censor themselves in their professional work and are likely to hold back information related to religious and security…

Over 96.9% of people who took part in the local referendum in the municipality of General Toshevo on 17 December have voted against the extraction…

The democratic institutions on the Balkans are not famous for their effectiveness, but several local referendums in Bulgaria and Macedonia held in the spring and…