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Sri Lanka: Despite UN calls to protect civic freedoms, government targets activists and critics and stifles dissent
- Published at
- 07.07.2023
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained

Workers strike against bill banning “rioters” from protests; fourteen arrested as activists occupy gas terminal
- Published at
- 06.07.2023
- Country
- Belgium
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Freedom of expression under threat as anti-boycott bill enters Parliament
- Published at
- 06.07.2023
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- refugees and migrants
- surveillance
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained

Dispute continues over gender identity laws, Orthodox Church stages protests
- Published at
- 05.07.2023
- Country
- North Macedonia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- religious groups
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- political interference

Workers protested for better working conditions
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Barbados
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- protest

DRC: Violent repression of opposition protest as Senate adopts law on the protection of human rights defenders
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors

Attacks and threats against journalists continue
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Ecuador
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- censorship

Media and independent activists have been the most affected by repression from the authorities
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law

OSC EXPRESÓ SU PREOCUPACIÓN POR LAS CRECIENTES AMENAZAS CONTRA PERIODISTAS Y MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- intimidation
- protest
- land rights

AUMENTAN LOS ATAQUES CONTRA LAS PERSONAS DEFENSORAS DE LOS DD. HH.
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened

DIFAMAN A MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- public vilification