{"id":225076,"date":"2026-02-25T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-reject-bill-to-restrict-civil-society\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:53:10","slug":"angola-reject-bill-to-restrict-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-reject-bill-to-restrict-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Reject Bill To Restrict Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Johannesburg \u2014 <em>Revise Draft Law to Conform with International Legal Standards<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">A bill passed by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/angola\" rel=\"noopener\">Angola<\/a>&#8216;s parliament on January 22, 2026, to regulate nongovernmental organizations would significantly expand <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ishr.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/APELO-URGENTE-PROPOSTA-DE-LEI-QUE-APROVA-O-ESTATUTO-DAS-ONG_EN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">government control<\/a> over civil society and undermine fundamental freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o should not sign the bill into law but return it to parliament for revisions that ensure compliance with Angola&#8217;s international human rights obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The draft&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2014 Revise Draft Law to Conform with International Legal Standards A bill passed by Angola&#8216;s parliament on January 22, 2026, to regulate nongovernmental organizations would significantly expand government control over civil society and undermine fundamental freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o should not sign the bill into law but return it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400932:88ebdc1edadcc5fef08ecd5bfc5bc67e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7292,8227,257,6654,7549,7120,254],"class_list":["post-225076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-bill","tag-civil","tag-news","tag-reject","tag-restrict","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400932:88ebdc1edadcc5fef08ecd5bfc5bc67e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}