This document provides information on the worsening operational environment of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Moldova, where increasingly more independent CSOs become the target of numerous mudslinging and defamation actions.<\/p>\n
The main purpose of the document is to draw attention to the danger of orchestrated attacks on CSOs,\u00a0and to determine public authorities, private organizations, and individuals to stop supporting those\u00a0attacks and let CSOs operate freely. This document also aims at enabling CSOs to design timely\u00a0response to attacks against them.<\/p>\n
The term \u201cattacks\u201d as used in this document refers particularly to media articles or public interventions\u00a0that present the nonprofit sector as promoting the interests of foreign countries or serving the\u00a0interests of political parties. Some of these attacks take the form of direct administrative crackdown
\non CSOs by driving them out of policy-making process or by launching legislative initiatives aimed at\u00a0deteriorating the CSOs’ working environment.<\/p>\n