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Civic Space Developments
Restrictive civic space and a decrease in rank in the annual World Press Freedom Index
- Published at
- 03.05.2021
- Country
- Rwanda
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- intimidation
Concerns over media freedom remain despite positive presidential signals
- Published at
- 29.04.2021
- Country
- Tanzania
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- political interference
- enabling law
Wave of political repression: witch hunts for activists, marred elections and scores of arrests
- Published at
- 26.04.2021
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- HRD prosecuted
Safety Concerns For Journalists In Ethiopia, As More Are Arrested And One Killed
- Published at
- 21.04.2021
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist
Honduras: asesinan a líder lenca y criminalizan a varios defensores
- Published at
- 20.04.2021
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- release of HRDs
- private sector
- indigenous groups
- HRD acquitted
- land rights
- non state actors
- protest
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- LGBTI
- HRD killing
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- environmental rights
Crackdown on Thai activists continues as new restrictive NGO law proposed
- Published at
- 19.04.2021
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
- protest disruption
- women
- prevention of protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
Government reshuffle amid lack of justice and continued international scrutiny
- Published at
- 16.04.2021
- Country
- South Sudan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- surveillance
Two-year presidential term extension threatens to further destabilise the country
- Published at
- 16.04.2021
- Country
- Somalia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
- protest
Amendments to Law on Charitable Associations and CSOs seek to restrict civic space further
- Published at
- 15.04.2021
- Country
- Palestine
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- funding restriction
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Lenca leader killed and several defenders facing criminalisation in Honduras
- Published at
- 15.04.2021
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- private sector
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- protest
- HRD acquitted
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
Journalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala face attacks and smear campaigns
- Published at
- 15.04.2021
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- office raid
- indigenous groups
- bureaucratic restriction
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened