EU System for an Enabling Environment for civil society (EU SEE)

The enabling environment for civil society in India is shaped by a complex blend of laws, policies, administrative practices, and prevailing social attitudes. In the period of 2024 to 2025, several developments have significantly...

This report covers enabling‑environment developments from January to September 2025, with occasional references to key events that occurred prior to January 2025 where relevant. Throughout 2025, Sudan remained engulfed in a...

Sri Lanka is an old and established democracy. It has a long electoral democratic tradition, having introduced universal franchise as early as 1931, and a track record of peaceful changes of governments through the ballot since...

Panamá se define por sus profundos contrastes. Aunque su producto interior bruto (PIB) supera el promedio regional, como lo muestran las estimaciones de la Cepal, seguirá creciendo gracias a su economía de servicios, el Canal de...

Trinidad and Tobago maintains one of the Caribbean’s more robust democratic and institutional frameworks, yet its enabling environment for civil society remains uneven. The country’s 1976 Constitution enshrines freedoms of...

Bangladesh is undergoing a complex political transition following the collapse of long-standing rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League-led government in August 2024. After parliamentary elections in...

At the end of September 2025, Madagascar entered a period of political turmoil that led to a political transition. The events began with the arrest of three city councillors on 19 September 2025, in front of the Senate building in...

Zimbabwe is, in principle, a constitutional democracy grounded in a progressive 2013 Constitution endorsed across the political spectrum. In practice, however, constitutional non‑compliance is widespread, civic space remains...

In 2025, Tanzania’s enabling environment for civil society continued to narrow across multiple dimensions, with fundamental freedoms increasingly constrained by arbitrary arrests, politically motivated prosecutions, and electoral...

Colombia continues to face pervasive and escalating violence that shows no sign of abating, with profound consequences for the enabling environment and the conditions necessary for democratic participation. Illegal armed groups...