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CSOs call for Azeri authorities to stop the persecution of independent journalists
Published at
11.01.2021
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- journalist detained
- enabling law
Authorities fail to protect anti-racism protesters; climate protests staged
Published at
08.01.2021
Country
Netherlands
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- environmental rights
Protests staged in support of Polish Women and against COVID-19 measures
Published at
08.01.2021
Country
Lithuania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- women
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
Protests restricted and criminalised in Timor-Leste
Published at
08.01.2021
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
Journalists continue to face attacks, death threats during protests against COVID-19 measures
Published at
07.01.2021
Country
Germany
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Rights groups and the UN continue to press Laos where civic space remains ‘closed’
Published at
07.01.2021
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- minority groups
Anti-vaxxer case dismissed while controversial bills passed by Samoan parliament
Published at
06.01.2021
Country
Samoa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
While insisting it’s COVID-19 free, Turkmenistan renews efforts to clamp down on dissent
Published at
22.12.2020
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Closing civic space in Brazil: censorship, harassment and attacks on journalists and activists
Published at
18.12.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- violent protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- political interference
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- women
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- land rights
Contested legislative elections in Venezuela amid pandemic
Published at
18.12.2020
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Mass protests against reduced budget for social policies in Guatemala
Published at
17.12.2020
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- killing of journalist
- attack on journalist
- violent protest
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD killing
- positive court ruling
- excessive force
- women