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Cambodia: Ahead of elections, civil society and journalists face threats and criminalisation while restrictions on the opposition escalate
- Published at
- 03.07.2023
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
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Anti-Homosexuality Act signed into law, vocal government critic shot dead
- Published at
- 30.06.2023
- Country
- Uganda
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- youth
- sexual assault
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
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Tougher restrictions for CSOs and right to information amid new law and draft law
- Published at
- 30.06.2023
- Country
- Palestine
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- journalist detained
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law
- access to info. law
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CSOs denounce new restrictive law
- Published at
- 30.06.2023
- Country
- Libya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
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Attacks and targeting of pro-democracy activists continue
- Published at
- 30.06.2023
- Country
- Eswatini
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
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Prominent historian has been the victim of cell phone spyware
- Published at
- 29.06.2023
- Country
- Mexico
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- labour rights
- protest
- surveillance
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Increased attacks against HRDs
- Published at
- 12.06.2023
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
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CSO expressed concern over the increasing number of threats against journalists and media.
- Published at
- 12.06.2023
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- intimidation
- protest
- land rights
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68 human rights defenders killed in the first four months of 2023
- Published at
- 12.06.2023
- Country
- Colombia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- protest
- killing of journalist
- environmental rights
- non state actors
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Journalist’s sentence upheld, HRDs acquitted
- Published at
- 31.05.2023
- Country
- Burundi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- HRD prosecuted
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Targeting of Journalists and media outlets intensifies as conflict escalates
- Published at
- 31.05.2023
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted