Calls for legislation to protect human rights defenders as attacks against them persist Published at 04.06.2018 Country Philippines Category Latest Developments Tags: youth attack on journalist women restrictive law HRD killing attack on HRD minority groups environmental rights intimidation extractive industries protest land rights Read more
Indigenous rights defenders in Peru at grave risk due to interests in community lands Published at 05.06.2018 Country Peru Category Latest Developments Tags: protestor(s) detained youth HRD killing excessive force environmental rights protest disruption indigenous groups women attack on journalist Read more
Journalists in Belarus fined as the regime silences independent voices Published at 06.06.2018 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: women negative court ruling protest harassment political interference restrictive law bureaucratic restriction journalist detained Read more
Vanuatu Teachers Union calls off strike after demands met by government Published at 06.06.2018 Country Vanuatu Category Latest Developments Tags: access to info. law labour rights Read more
Journalists detained without charge in Puntland and Somaliland Published at 08.06.2018 Country Somalia Category Latest Developments Tags: women journalist detained positive CS development HRD detained protestor(s) detained excessive force protest Read more
President accuses civil society of conspiring to destabilise the country Published at 08.06.2018 Country Guinea Category Latest Developments Tags: youth women violent protest labour rights protest public vilification Read more
Dozens of journalists fear for their lives Published at 04.09.2018 Country Syria Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of journalist journalist detained torture/ill-treatment Read more
Police detain and beat protestors demonstrating against new laws Published at 11.06.2018 Country Vietnam Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained excessive force protest prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Protest over privatisation of water service leads to clashes with police Published at 19.06.2018 Country El Salvador Category Latest Developments Tags: access to info. law violent protest excessive force Read more
Brazil: A hostile place for journalists and activists with three killed in January Published at 07.02.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of journalist protest disruption protestor(s) detained attack on journalist HRD killing excessive force protest Read more
Access to social media restricted for the second time in 2018 Published at 13.06.2018 Country Chad Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship prevention of protest labour rights internet restriction Read more
Continued concern over the state of independent media in Bulgaria Published at 06.06.2018 Country Bulgaria Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on journalist refugees and migrants labour rights protest Read more
Concerns over free expression rights and censorship emerge during abortion referendum Published at 15.06.2018 Country Ireland Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship women people with disabilities Read more
Security forces use excessive force during protests: one student killed Published at 14.06.2018 Country Senegal Category Latest Developments Tags: prevention of protest killing of protestors violent protest youth protest disruption attack on journalist HRD detained protest protestor(s) detained Read more
President Weah submits bill to repeal certain limitations on free expression Published at 14.06.2018 Country Liberia Category Latest Developments Tags: women enabling law criminal defamation harassment labour rights protest land rights Read more
Opposition figure detained at airport and forcibly deported again Published at 14.06.2018 Country Kenya Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI indigenous groups harassment attack on journalist excessive force prevention of protest censorship protestor(s) detained environmental rights Read more
Authorities force unregistered blogs and online platforms to shut down Published at 12.06.2018 Country Tanzania Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship restrictive law internet restriction Read more
March 2018 Elections Declared Mostly Peaceful Published at 08.06.2018 Country Sierra Leone Category Latest Developments Tags: excessive force protest Read more
Another activist silenced: Germain Rukuki sentenced to 32 years in prison Published at 13.06.2018 Country Burundi Category Latest Developments Tags: political interference HRD prosecuted censorship HRD detained intimidation Read more
Septimius Award organisers abducted in Tripoli and held in detention by GNA Published at 18.06.2018 Country Libya Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance journalist detained torture/ill-treatment Read more
Government lifts the state of emergency and releases political prisoners Published at 18.06.2018 Country Ethiopia Category Latest Developments Tags: positive CS development release of HRDs Read more
