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CSF Launches SEED: A New Laboratory for Solidarity, Empathy, Equity and Diversity

October 19, 2026

What Stays After the Election Is Over? Reflections from the Robert Bosch Academy’s Festival of Ideas

Why does civic space keep shrinking? Reflections from the Robert Bosch Academy’s Festival of Ideas on bridging divides and keeping democracy strong.

October 12, 2026

Event Recap: Belonging without Othering, An Evening of Stories in Berlin

Across Europe, the question of who belongs — and on whose terms — has rarely felt more charged. Amid migration, deepening polarisation and a rising politics of us-and-them, it is a question more people are sitting with. That’s why, as part of our Berlin Hub initiative in July, in a former piano factory in Berlin, around a hundred people gathered around the following question: how do we find belonging across difference — without flattening that difference?

August 19, 2026

Holding the Line: ILGA-Europe at 30

When a government moves against LGBTI people, it is rarely finished there. That has been one of ILGA-Europe’s main contentions for over a decade: attacks on LGBTI rights are often the entry point for wider repression.

July 23, 2026

The Chișinău Declaration: A Watershed Moment for the European Human Rights System?

On 15 May 2026, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a ‘political declaration’ about migration and the European Convention on Human Rights in Chișinău. Rather than focusing on how to improve the Convention’s effectiveness, a number of states are instead pushing to narrow certain rights protections, particularly for migrants. It may prove to be a watershed moment – and not a positive one.

May 22, 2026

Statement on recent restrictions to civil society in Germany

Ongoing developments in Germany with regards to civic space have deeply concerned us at the Civil Society Forum. We have become aware of the situation of Radikale Töchter, a civil society organisation whose public funding has been halted by the Ministry of the Interior.

March 27, 2026
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