Governance & Corruption

The enabling environment for civil society in Indonesia has experienced a marked deterioration, characterised by intensified restrictions and heightened tensions between state authorities and civic actors. Nationwide protests...

From 2021 onwards El Salvador has experienced a growing concentration of power in the executive, which increasingly controls the judicial and legislative branches, whose own oversight roles have been diminished. Despite the...

The enabling environment in Pakistan continues to present persistent challenges alongside limited but notable areas of resilience across its political, economic, and civil society spheres. Politically, uncertainty and polarisation...

The third 2025 “Enabling Environment Snapshot” for Mexico (July–October) highlights a persistently fragile context for civil society, marked by violence, censorship, legal uncertainty, and increasing digital surveillance. Attacks...

The current state of the enabling environment for civil society in each country part of this project is captured in a concise, two-page Enabling Environment Snapshot. This first Snapshot provides an overview of the enabling...

In 2002, Timor-Leste (East Timor) became an independent nation after more than four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and two decades of Indonesian annexation. Independence came after a 1999 UN-supervised referendum, which...