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 ...

Donald Trump’s first 100 days reflect a paradox. On the one hand, he has overturned features of the world that long seemed fundamental. These include, to take just a few examples, the federal civil ...

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 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 ...

(Bishkek, June 13, 2023) – Human Rights Watch joined 6 other nongovernmental groups on June 12, 2023 in urging Kyrgyzstan lawmakers not to pass a law that would stigmatize and restrict the activities ...