
Explore
Civic Space Developments


Authorities continue to ban sit-ins, meetings and protests against the new controversial Constitution
Published at
30.08.2024
Country
Togo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- prevention of protest

Singapore: New Prime Minister continues policy of silencing dissent by criminalising protesters and harassing critics
Published at
29.08.2024
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- harassment
- protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted

India: Activists and journalists continued to be targeted around elections despite UN Human Rights Committee scrutiny
Published at
22.08.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Cambodia: Environmental, land and labour activists targeted by the government
Published at
13.08.2024
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- labour rights
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights

Sri Lanka: Authorities continue to target activists, stifle protests and silence journalists, as elections draw near
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- place restrictions
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- surveillance
Restrictions persist amidst Rwanda’s elections
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction

Writer and online activist Mohammed Ali Bakhit (Abu Ali Al-Barami) acquitted
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- HRD detained
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Bangladesh: Brutal crackdown on quota reform protesters by security forces and ruling party youth wing
Published at
25.07.2024
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Ongoing attacks against environmental defenders, with one park ranger killed
Published at
16.07.2024
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened

Philippines: Harassment and targeting of activists, NGOs continue despite formation of new human rights ‘super body’
Published at
15.07.2024
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- youth
- harassment
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Mali: Military authorities suspend activities of political parties and associations; several CSOs dissolved
Published at
03.07.2024
Country
Mali
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted