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💫 Look back at 2025 with us with our year-end newsletter!
This edition brings together a few snapshots of the efforts and solutions we are part of, inc.:
🟢 a global initiative to mobilise support for environmental human rights defenders #LEADInitiative,
🔵 new guide on how to do innovation right with Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments #FRIAs,
🟡 the monitoring tools we power: #MACS and #CSOMeter...and much more.

Read and sign up for 2026: https://mailchi.mp/ecnl/2025-in-review-looking-ahead?e=6e193cc95b

ECNL Dec 15

🚀 New: Guide to Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments 🚀

How can #FRIAs be conducted meaningfully & in line with the #AIAct?

👉 Here's a clear roadmap from ECNL & DIHR for deployers of high-risk #AI systems - and anyone seeking to deploy AI responsibly - to do so.

🔗 Download the guide and the template: https://ecnl.org/publications...

ECNL Dec 11

🫶 Responsible #AI works best when people collaborate.
In #Amsterdam, the municipality, technical team and citizens co-created an AI system using ECNL’s Framework for Meaningful Engagement: putting public interest and trust at the centre.
Find out more here: https://ecnl.org/news/amsterdams-journey-participatory-ai-development

ECNL Dec 3

❗ Experienced editor/proofreader (5+ yrs experience in reviewing analytical reports, civic freedoms terminology) wanted for the Monitoring Action for Civic Space (#MACS) project.

📖 You will review 7 country reports to ensure clarity, consistency, accuracy, and alignment with our standards.

💡 Our goal is to advance democratic rights and European values by empowering civil society.
Apply by 8 December: https://ecnl.org/job-openings
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #Editor #Proofreading #HumanRights

ECNL Nov 21

📢 See you in court? Join us for a new Civic Journalism Coalition Webinar on 27 Nov. 📢

🤔 Are you a journalist or work for a civil society org? Are you interested in how to use journalistic evidence in litigation? And how to defend yourself against #SLAPPs?

➡️ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o7Yd4CRuT_akRtTQInKStg#/registration

ECNL Nov 20

Our new step-by-step guide walks you through concrete process recommendations for public institutions and private providers designing or using AI tools for public participation.
⏩ Find out more here: https://ecnl.org/news/blueprint-rights-centered-ai-public-participation
Interested in piloting this tool? Get in touch: info@ecnl.org.

ECNL Nov 19

🚀 Out now: Framework for Meaningful Engagement 2.0

Civil society & affected communities must be part of #AI development to ensure that platforms & developers create rights-based products.

The #FME 2.0 provides practical suggestions on how to do this: https://ecnl.org/publications/framework-meaningful-engagement-20

#ResponsibleAI

ECNL Nov 19

✨ Make your voice stronger in shaping #DigitalPolicy!

✍ Apply to a new #CADE training to help you build policy expertise and diplomatic skills!

📅 Ddl: 30 Nov 2025

➡️ Apply now: https://cadeproject.org/in-focus/capacity-development-programme-for-csos-20252026/

Capacity Development Programme for CSOs 2025–2026 - CADE – Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment

Empowering civil society to shape digital policy The Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is strengthening the ability of civil society organisations (CSOs) – especially those from the Global South – to play a stronger role in shaping digital policy. The programme, developed and delivered by DiploFoundation, guides participants through a practical, step-by-step learning [...]

CADE – Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment

ECNL Nov 13

EDRi Nov 13

Europe’s digital rights are on the chopping block.

We - 127 CSOs & trade unions - are sounding the alarm over the European Commission’s forthcoming #DigitalOmnibus proposals.

Behind “simplification” lies a deregulation agenda that threatens the EU's digital framework - GDPR, ePrivacy, AI Act, DSA & DMA - the very laws that keep our data safe, hold govts & corporations accountable, prevent AI from determining our life chances, & protect us from mass surveillance.

✉️ : https://edri.org/our-work/forthcoming-digital-omnibus-would-mark-point-of-no-return/