FOREIGN AGENTS LAWS
A CURATED LIST OF MATERIALS ON FOREIGN AGENTS LAWS TARGETED AGAINST NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
FROM THE JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY AND OTHERS
GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF NGO LAWS
Russian-Style “Foreign Agents” Laws Signal a Rejection of Democratic Principles, International Forum for Democratic Studies, November 2024
https://www.ned.org/foreign-agents-laws/
Governments across Latin America are tightening their grip on non-profits, squeezing out independent journalism, LatAm Journalism Review, October 2024
https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/governments-across-latin-america-are-tightening-their-grip-on-non-profits-squeezing-out-independent-journalism/
The Power of Stigma: How Georgia’s “Foreign Agent” Law—and Others Like It—Can Damage Democracy, Foreign Affairs, August 2024
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/georgia/power-stigma
Russia Goes NGO-hunting in Central Asia, where NGOs have enough problems, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 2024
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ngo-hunting-central-asia/32854969.html
Dictator’s Dark Secret: They are Learning from Each Other, The Washington Post, June 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/22/dictators-trade-toolkits-cling-power/
Viktor Orbán’s Newest Tool for Crushing Dissent, Journal of Democracy, February 2024
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/viktor-orbans-newest-tool-for-crushing-dissent/
Authoritarianism Goes Global III: Civil Society Under Assault, Journal of Democracy, October 2015
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/595920
Defunding Dissent: Restrictions on Aid to NGOs, Journal of Democracy, April 2013
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/504620
RESPONSES TO FOREIGN AGENTS LAWS
A/79/263: Protecting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association from stigmatization – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, July 2024
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a79263-protecting-rights-freedom-peaceful-assembly-and-association
Lessons Learned from Georgian Civil Society’s Response to a Repressive “Foreign Agents” Law: A Conversation with Tinatin Khidasheli, Power 3.0, May 2024
https://www.power3point0.org/2024/05/09/lessons-learned-from-georgian-civil-societys-response-to-a-repressive-foreign-agents-law-a-conversation-with-tinatin-khidasheli/
NGOs Urge Kyrgyz President to Veto Controversial Foreign Agents Bill, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 2024
https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-final-reading-controversial-bill-foreign-agents-calls/32861621.html
A/HRC/53/38/Add.4: General principles and guidelines on ensuring the right of civil society organizations to have access to resources – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, June 2023
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5338add4-general-principles-and-guidelines-ensuring-right-civil
Why the Georgian Government Climbed Down on the Foreign Agents Law, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 2023
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-foreign-agents-law-government-climbdown-explainer/32310813.html
A/HRC/50/23: Access to resources – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, March 2022
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5023-access-resources-report-special-rapporteur-rights-freedom
“A Tale of Two Laws: Managing Foreign Agents and Overseas NGOs in Russia and China,” in Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes, (pg.167 – 190), 2020
https://academic.oup.com/book/33649/chapter-abstract/288180692?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The “Foreign Agent Problem”: An International Legal Solution to Domestic Restrictions on Non-Governmental Organizations, Cardozo Law Review, 2018
https://cardozolawreview.com/the-foreign-agent-problem-an-international-legal-solution-to-domestic-restrictions-on-non-governmental-organizations/
