Last month I participated in a meeting of a dozen or so foundation leaders and think tankers. We spent two days grappling with, as the invitation put it, the “functions and dysfunctions of the present ...

Civil society organizations, including groups that work to protect human rights, are under growing threat in Europe. The threat these days doesn’t come just from repressive governments like those in ...

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, geopolitical fracturing and now a recession, civil society leaders continue to tirelessly serve those who need them. From advocates for racial and ...

The prevalence of the phrase “civil society” is one of the distinguishing features of today’s political tumult. To some nonprofit leaders, the Trump administration’s actions “don’t look like just an ...

"The beginning is the most important part of any work," Plato writes in The Republic, "especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed." ...

Kathmandu, March 20 -- Ten civil society organisations have concluded that the House of Representatives election held on March 5 was largely peaceful, orderly and relatively free and fair, despite ...

The Civil Society Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) supports civil society engagement towards shaping environmental policies, ensuring their voices resonate loud and clear in UN ...

Autocrats desire a more autocratic world. A lack of transparency opens the door for greater corruption and kleptocracy and normalizes human rights violations. It also creates new international norms, ...

President Ali tells senior officers conference REDEFINING the roles of civil society, the religious community and judicial systems could drive significant ...

Local events gather experts and key stakeholders of the CSABOT project, such as civil society organisations, journalists, academics, representatives of BO registers and of the private sector, to ...