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Civic Space Developments
Increased threats against human rights defenders in Ghazni and Farah provinces
Published at
30.08.2018
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD threatened
- protest
- non state actors
Saudi authorities detain women human rights defenders in latest crackdown
Published at
29.08.2018
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- HRD prosecuted
Journalists, bloggers to be included in foreign agents law
Published at
24.08.2018
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- women
- youth
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Sliding downhill: concerns remain regarding the civic space situation despite releases
Published at
24.08.2018
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- religious groups
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
UN Human Rights Committee slams Laos record on civil and political rights
Published at
23.08.2018
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
13 dead, hundreds injured and detained in widespread protests
Published at
22.08.2018
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Iranian authorities target human rights lawyers, while activists remain in detention
Published at
17.08.2018
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- killing of protestors
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest
Activists call for reform after peace deal with Ethiopia
Published at
13.08.2018
Country
Eritrea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- religious groups
- bureaucratic restriction
Attacks and harassment of independent media continues unabated
Published at
08.08.2018
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Repression of protests killed 15 people in 2018
Published at
07.08.2018
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- censorship
Amendments to media law could 'further restrict press in Belarus", according to the OSCE
Published at
07.08.2018
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- environmental rights
- protest