Pride as Democratic Practice: What Movements Can Learn from Budapest Pride 2025 Resisting Orbán
Facing declining popularity, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a ban on pride marches and LGBTQ demonstrations in early 2025. Instead of deterring resistance, the ban was met with unprecedented solidarity
Joint appeal for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call upon the Member States of the Council of Europe
to take urgent and collective action to address the growing phenomenon of transnational repression
(TNR) through the adoption of a Council of Europe Convention dedicated to preventing and combating this serious and evolving threat to human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
Multilateralism Under Pressure: Civil Society’s Response and the Future of the UN
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the situation in the UN got very difficult. Governments can barely agree on anything. The culture of consensus, when governments could just come together and decide something, is not happening anymore.
What do the recent presidential “elections” mean for Belarusian civil society?
Authoritarian regimes never have a positive attitude toward civil society, especially its institutionalised forms and civil society organisations.
Annual Conference in Berlin on “Democracies in Peril”
This year our Annual Conference focused on the theme “Democracies in peril?
Welcome our new Executive Director, Nataliya Novakova
The Board of the Civil Society Forum (CSF) is delighted to announce the appointment of Nataliya Novakova as the Forum’s new Executive Director effective from September 1, 2024, following an extensive search and selection process.
Europe Lab 2024 Explores “Changing Tides” in Jáchymov, Czechia
The historic town of Jáchymov, nestled in the Ore Mountains of Czechia, set the stage for Europe Lab 2024, an annual forum that unites young leaders and changemakers from across Europe.
