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Protesters clash amid rising polarisation over the 2025 elections
Published at
25.10.2024
Country
Bolivia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- enabling law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- private sector

La nueva ley de medios suscita críticas en vísperas de las elecciones generales
Published at
24.10.2024
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD threatened

135 political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua; closure of 1,500 CSOs within one month
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

Indonesia: Suppression of protests and crackdown on activism in Papua persisted ahead of President Prabowo’s inauguration
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- land rights

New Media Law draws criticism ahead of the country’s general elections
Published at
22.10.2024
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD threatened

New Zealand: Climate protesters found guilty for train blockade while arrests reported in other protests
Published at
21.10.2024
Country
New Zealand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- extractive industries
- protest

Killing of environmental defender highlights ongoing violence against HRD
Published at
20.10.2024
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights

Judicial harassment of journalists ahead of legislative elections
Published at
17.10.2024
Country
Senegal
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained

Development agency ends agreements with CSO partners
Published at
16.10.2024
Country
Sweden
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

A growing climate of fear and self-censorship – new assaults on independent media, civil society and online activism
Published at
16.10.2024
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- time,place restrictions

Protesters arrested, sentenced to prison for attempting to demonstrate against high cost of living
Published at
16.10.2024
Country
Côte d'Ivoire
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption