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Journalists and their families continue to face a dangerous environment
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- 03.12.2019
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- Mexico
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Protests against hunger and poverty in Argentina
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- 18.12.2019
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- Argentina
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Women human rights defenders are targets of threats and attacks in Honduras
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- 18.12.2019
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- Honduras
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Nicaragua: criminalización, difamación y acoso de personas defensoras de los DD. HH
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- 20.12.2019
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- Nicaragua
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Protests against pulp mill met with excessive force in Uruguay
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- 20.12.2019
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- Uruguay
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Death threats intensify after civil society questions changes to criminal code
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- 19.12.2019
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- Serbia
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Costa Rica’s law to regulate strikes jeopardises freedom of association and peaceful assembly
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- 04.02.2020
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- Costa Rica
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Activists disappeared or arrested in Pakistan while media faces restrictions and threats
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- 08.01.2020
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- Pakistan
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Activists, journalists and dissidents detained to prevent protests on International Human Rights Day
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- 07.01.2020
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- Cuba
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CSOs denounce lack of public information on COVID-19, putting people at risk in Nicaragua
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- 20.04.2020
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Discriminatory citizenship law sparks a month of protests in India and brutal response from police
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- 13.01.2020
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- India
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Despite political change in Nauru, judiciary convicts 2015 protesters
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- 10.01.2020
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- Nauru
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Report on freedom of expression highlights criminal defamation
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- 13.01.2020
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- Panama
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People in the US turn to protest to demand changes to the status quo
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- 13.01.2020
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- United States of America
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Government tightens reins on civic freedoms during the last year
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- 14.01.2020
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- Tanzania
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Eritrea second on list of worst jailers of journalists in Africa
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- 14.01.2020
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- Eritrea
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President Kagame Denies Spying on Opponents Abroad
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- 14.01.2020
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- Rwanda
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Human rights defender and journalist arrested and charged, later released
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- 20.01.2020
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- Chad
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Crisis política en Bolivia: manifestaciones violentas y posibles ejecuciones extrajudiciales
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- 23.01.2020
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- Bolivia
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Three defenders and a journalist killed in early 2020 in Mexico
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- 12.02.2020
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- Mexico
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