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Empowering Civil Society

Empowering Civil Society

Foreign Lobbying Overhaul Loses Steam in Congress

Amid partisan clashes and pushback from foreign-owned companies, the push to strengthen the Foreign Agents Registration Act appears to be going nowhere fast.
Politico
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Sep 18, 2018
Empowering Civil Society

Crackdown Targets Worker Rights Activists

Around the world, a pattern of attacks against freedom of assembly and collective bargaining is increasing -  even in countries with strong democracies -  within a broader clampdown on human rights and restrictions on civic space.
Tula Connell
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Aug 8, 2018
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Empowering Civil Society

Together Project Advocates for Financial Access

InterAction's Together Project worked to bring attention to the difficulties members face in financial access on Capitol Hill during a House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled “International and Domestic Implications of De-Risking” on June 26, 2018.
Jessica Kesler
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Jul 9, 2018
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Empowering Civil Society

Is that enviormental group a pawn of Beijing? Nonprofits wary of being branded ‘foreign agents’

"A broad spectrum of civil society groups that work internationally fear they could face a new legal threat — being pressured to register as foreign agents, a designation that could severely damage an organization."
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Jun 14, 2018
Empowering Civil Society

Is that environmental group a pawn of Beijing?

"It is not at all clear where this is headed," said Sam Worthington, CEO of InterAction, a large coalition of U.S.-based nonprofits that work internationally. He warns that thousands of American nonprofits could find themselves in the same predicament as the Natural Resources Defense Council.