@mpfpr together with the #CaucasusInstitute held a second workshop in Vanadzor, Lori 🇦🇲 with local #CSOs discussing civil society’s role in law-making and sharing experiences and challenges.
Generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt
More info here ⬇️ https://www.mpfpr.de/2025/09/04/continued-exploration-of-strategies-for-strengthening-csos-engagement-in-the-legislative-process-in-armenia/
@mpfpr and the #CaucasusInstitute held a workshop in Gyumri, Shirak 🇦🇲 with local #CSOs discussing civil society’s role in law-making and sharing experiences and challenges.
Generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt
After 2013, the way #Pakistan views NGOs has changed drastically, with many looking at their role with doubt and suspicion of Western influence.
In this conversation, we have been joined by Ms. Sabiha Shaheen, executive director at BARGAD Youth, Mr. Mohammad Waseem, director Interactive Resource Centre, and Ms. Uzma Yaqoob, director FDI Pakistan, to talk about the different roles of #NGOs, Civil Societies, and #CSOs in Pakistan today.
Watch full episode here :https://youtu.be/DBsEoYkur94
Civil society organisations (#CSOs) are under attack across Europe and America.
The #EU must act now to defend them and safeguard #democracy.
https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/press-releases/civil-society-under-fire-why-eu-must-act-now
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are under attack across Europe and America. The EU must act now to defend them and safeguard democracy. At its plenary debate on the International Day of NGOs, the European Economic and Social Committee sent out a clear message: CSOs are democracy’s frontline defenders. With funding cuts threatening their survival, the EU must take immediate action to protect and support them.
In 2021, a massacre near TotalEnergies’ Afungi premises was committed by public security forces. To this day, none of the 31 backers of the project support an independent investigation.
📢 Together with 125+ Mozambican & international #CSOs, we demand #justice!
Financial support must stop unless the project’s risks, human rights abuses, and links to regional conflict are fully reassessed.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4g5paHr
Not one of the financial backers of the highly controversial Mozambique LNG project has agreed to publicly call for an independent international investigation into an alleged massacre of civilians,…
Transparency drives accountability.
In our response to the EU’s consultation on the #DSA Delegated Regulation, we focused on:
1️⃣ Preventing law enforcement misuse by excluding them as vetted researchers
2️⃣ Enabling #CSOs (incl. non-EU) through collaborative applications
3️⃣ Ensuring robust, detailed, & updated #data inventories
These steps will protect rights & empower meaningful research.
Read our full recommendations: https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-europe-response-to-the-consultation-on-data-access-in-the-dsa/
CDT Europe welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to provide independent researchers with access to platforms’ data, initially through Article 40 of the Digital Services Act and now with further specifications outlined in the Draft Delegated Act. Several VLOPs have made access to their data more difficult in the last year, but transparency that allows for […]
📢 The last EU Tech Policy Brief of the year is here!
👁️ Spyware Coordination Group workshop to tackle #spyware.
💬 Webinar on Trusted Flaggers under #DSA with #CSOs, #DSCs & EU Commission.
⚖️ Blog post on accountability gaps for #AI-induced harms.
…and more!
👇 Read & subscribe: https://cdt.org/insights/eu-tech-policy-brief-december-2024/
Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief for the last edition of the year! This edition highlights some of the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe, the U.S., and internationally, and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights. To sign up for […]
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