"There has been a growing trend of 'criminalization' of irregular migration in Europe," the organization said as it launched an online petition urging the European Parliament to hold authorities accountable for their treatment of migrants.
In Africa, many countries are constantly imposing new restrictions on what civil society groups can do and say, and using extrajudicial intimidation and infiltration to hobble any efforts to hold authorities accountable.
It's through acts of pushing for system reforms that geographically dispersed groups of citizens are able to grow spontaneously into their own, and by acting to hold authorities accountable and pushing for political reforms, establishment of democratic rule of law, and advances in society, that civil groups are able to grow in a healthy way.
Holding authorities accountable on key measures of local nuisance, including graffiti, litter, drug use and loitering teenagers seems simplistic and inadequate as a solution to social problems that have persisted for generations.
Hossy says that they are "trying to find a legal basis for holding this event and holding authorities accountable".
I have always believed that by pushing for the judiciary to take up the responsibility of internet filtering, Iranian internet users can slow down the process of filtering, hold the authorities accountable, and force them to make the behind-the-scenes process transparent.
It said Tehran was suffocating because "we [the media] are not able to hold the authorities accountable", "you are not switching off your cars" and "they [officials] are only capable of closing schools".
"The international community... has a vital role to play: to shine a spotlight on Iran's human rights record and to hold its authorities accountable.
I, for one, am hopeful the public -- particularly the blogger community -- will hold the authorities accountable for a thorough, open and honest investigation of this bizarre and tragic occurrence.
Successive Italian governments denied all knowledge of the case and consistently ruled out extradition,and the judges appeared intent on holding US authorities accountable.
