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Latvia tightens border controls; Refugee aid worker’s criminal case continues; Activist expelled based on tip-off from state security informant
Published at
31.07.2025
Country
Latvia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- travel ban
- protest
- political interference
- censorship
Canada’s 2025 election year marked by rising disinformation and new federal and provincial laws curbing civic freedoms
Published at
21.07.2025
Country
Canada
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- women
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- positive CS development
- youth
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
Politician’s brother threatens journalist over corruption report amid growing concerns about pressure on media
Published at
18.07.2025
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- protest
- censorship
- access to info. law
- environmental rights
Workers in Barbados strike again over stalled wage talks and unfulfilled commitments
Published at
13.07.2025
Country
Barbados
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
Taiwan: Citizen groups harassed for recall vote while funding cuts impact civil society
Published at
08.07.2025
Country
Taiwan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- land rights
- non state actors
Supreme Court ruling against newspaper sparks debate on press freedom as Jamaica slips in RSF global index; Protest held to denounce rise in police abuses
Published at
06.07.2025
Country
Jamaica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- protest
- public vilification
- women
Japan: Court throws out defamation lawsuit against journalist while activist sentenced in Okinawa for protests against US bases
Published at
04.07.2025
Country
Japan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- negative court ruling
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
Prime Minister’s renewed claims of foreign-funded media raise concerns over press freedom
Published at
01.07.2025
Country
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- access to info. law
- public vilification
Report finds hostile climate for environmental protests; Excessive force used against activists protesting military shipments to Israel
Published at
30.06.2025
Country
Denmark
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- excessive force
- protest
- enabling law
- HRD acquitted
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Watchdogs warn of hardening stance towards civil disobedience, multiple arrests at pro-Palestine protests
Published at
30.06.2025
Country
Ireland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- surveillance
- excessive force
- protest
- enabling law
- protestor(s) detained
New coalition of parties all headed by women; peaceful pro-Palestinian protests
Published at
23.06.2025
Country
Iceland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- refugees and migrants
- protest