I blogged below about Judge Browning's Free Exercise Clause analysis; but the church also raised an assembly clause challenge to the ban on gatherings of more than 5 people in places of worship. Such ...

For more information, please contact Elizabeth DeMeo at [email protected], 202.862.4876. Event Summary Most Americans know that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech and religion, but what ...

Gina Romero, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, spoke at the Law School on Monday on the right to peacefully assemble and protest at universities worldwide.

Clément Nyaletsossi Voule has released a report that integrates many of the issues IFEX raised in its submission, included below, related to protecting the ability of civil society to do its important ...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: AFRICAN COUNTRIES BLATANTLY VIOLATE RIGHTS TO ASSOCIATION AND ASSEMBLY An ARTICLE 19 report launched today (1) demonstrates that ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: In light of widespread global restrictions on civil society, civicus is launching a new tool to measure the freedoms that people around the world have to protest, organise and speak ...

Caroline Hodes receives funding from SSHRC (in the past). Since then, Ontario delayed allowing so-called bubble families — gatherings of more than five people — when the province’s COVID-19 cases ...

Our organizations, Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture, ACAT-France), Act Together for Human Rights (Agir ensemble pour les droits ...

Since the end of the pro-democracy Hirak protest movement (2019-2021), the Algerian authorities have intensified their repression of peaceful dissent. They have targeted independent civil society ...

The German Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld citizens’ right to hold political protests after a group of activists in the state of Hesse petitioned the court with a document titled “Strengthen ...