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Workers stage strikes in Barbados’ capital city over pay, safety and fair hiring
Published at
15.10.2025
Country
Barbados
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- protest
Media independence faces challenges ahead of elections; Community protests to denounce police killing
Published at
14.10.2025
Country
Jamaica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
UN experts warn of ‘’chilling’’ impact as assault on media, journalists and activists intensifies
Published at
14.10.2025
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Mauritius gains sovereignty over Chagos Islands; Arrest of journalist
Published at
13.10.2025
Country
Mauritius
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- positive CS development
- travel ban
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- journalist detained
Portugal holds third election in three years; Civic space threatened by far-right parties and extremist groups
Published at
13.10.2025
Country
Portugal
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Mongolia: Rights group calls for repeal of restrictive provision while NGOs and human rights defenders face challenges
Published at
13.10.2025
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- protest
Expansion of law enforcement and continued suppression of critical voices
Published at
11.10.2025
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- excessive force
- intimidation
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- travel ban
Fiji: Concerns around denial of protest permit, lack of protection for women human rights defenders, and online laws
Published at
09.10.2025
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- hrd
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened
Bahamas: Intimidation of media, tensions around proposed Junkanoo Authority bill
Published at
08.10.2025
Country
Bahamas
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- protest
- public vilification
Timor-Leste: Parliament scraps plans on cars and lifetime pensions after student protests mobilised
Published at
07.10.2025
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
South Korea: Student protesters arrested, anti-China protests restricted and concerns about privacy raised by UN expert
Published at
06.10.2025
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- surveillance