OPORA's Opinion on the Draft Law “On Fair Lobbying and Advocacy in Ukraine”

The pro-government Georgian parliamentary group “Power of the People” has developed and registered in the Georgian parliament two draft laws under a shared provisional name “On Foreign Agents”. The initiatives stipulate that all non-governmental organizations and media funded from abroad must register with the State Registry Service as foreign agents. The Georgian Dream party supported the initiative. Nearly 400 Georgian NGOs and the parliamentary opposition sharply criticized both versions ...

Yesterday, on September 29, within Human Dimensions Conference, which is taking place in Warsaw, the informal meeting of Ukrainian civil soiety representatives with Matteo Mecacci, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights was held.

During August 1–4, OPORA held the first Open Election Data and Disinformation Academy in Warsaw, participated by the civil society representatives from 11 countries. The event was organized with the support of the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

Today in Warsaw, Poland started the 4-day Academy of Open Election Data and Disinformation. Academy participants represent NGOs engaged in election observation from 10 European countries (Poland, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Georgia, Armenia, and Tunisia).

The Civil Network OPORA, with support from the National Democratic Institute, is pleased to announce a call for participation in a four-day training program within the ‘Open Election Data & Disinformation’ Academy! The Academy will take place in Warsaw from August 1-4. Deadline: July 6, 2022

June, 2022 may become a critical time in the context of Ukraine's European integration aspirations. The application for EU membership that Ukraine submitted at the beginning of the full-scale war will be discussed at the summit on June, 23–24.

The local self-government system that Ukraine has been thoroughly building over the past six years is now undergoing by far the most serious resilience test. It is not even about the condition of local self-governance at the end of war, or several months or years later. The resilience capacity built by the reform is enduring enough to quickly replicate best practices of decentralization and good governance models, even after the disruption of the entire system. Today, the key question is abou...

This year the Forum will take place on March 3-4 in Kyiv. We wish we could gather everyone offline and exchange views during discussions while drinking coffee. However, the coronavirus pandemic still does not make it possible. Therefore, the event will be held in a mixed format - guests and some speakers will join online, the rest will speak from the studio in Kyiv.