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Philippines: A year into the Marcos Jr presidency, arbitrary arrests, surveillance, attacks on journalists and enforced disappearances persist
Published at
13.07.2023
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- surveillance
- private sector
- non state actors
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- youth
Armenia: Protests at home and abroad over Nagorno-Karabakh, lawyers strike over police violence
Published at
12.07.2023
Country
Armenia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- torture/ill-treatment
- protest
Mongolia: Involuntary return of dissident back to China, while activists critical of mining projects face harassment
Published at
10.07.2023
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- refugees and migrants
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- extractive industries
In Somalia and Somaliland, no reprieve is in sight for journalists
Published at
07.07.2023
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- religious groups
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
Sri Lanka: Despite UN calls to protect civic freedoms, government targets activists and critics and stifles dissent
Published at
07.07.2023
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Workers strike against bill banning “rioters” from protests; fourteen arrested as activists occupy gas terminal
Published at
06.07.2023
Country
Belgium
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Freedom of expression under threat as anti-boycott bill enters Parliament
Published at
06.07.2023
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- refugees and migrants
- surveillance
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Dispute continues over gender identity laws, Orthodox Church stages protests
Published at
05.07.2023
Country
North Macedonia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- religious groups
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- political interference
Islamophobic discrimination and protests more and more present in Sweden
Published at
04.07.2023
Country
Sweden
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- protest
Workers protested for better working conditions
Published at
03.07.2023
Country
Barbados
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- protest
DRC: Violent repression of opposition protest as Senate adopts law on the protection of human rights defenders
Published at
03.07.2023
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors