Brazil: Anger at government inaction after Indigenous advocate and international correspondent are killed in the Amazon Published at 13.07.2022 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment HRD killing criminal defamation public vilification killing of journalist censorship access to info. law non state actors positive court ruling LGBTI women indigenous groups minority groups attack on journalist negative court ruling protest extractive industries political interference journalist detained environmental rights land rights Read more
Colombia: human rights defenders and local leaders impacted by violence in rural areas Published at 10.08.2022 Country Colombia Category Latest Developments Tags: youth intimidation HRD killing censorship access to info. law non state actors LGBTI women indigenous groups minority groups attack on journalist labour rights protest internet restriction journalist detained protestor(s) detained environmental rights land rights Read more
Colombia: personas defensoras y líderes locales afectados por la violencia en las zonas rurales Published at 18.08.2022 Country Colombia Category Latest Developments Tags: youth intimidation HRD killing censorship access to info. law non state actors LGBTI women indigenous groups minority groups attack on journalist labour rights protest internet restriction journalist detained protestor(s) detained environmental rights land rights Read more
Venezuela: Teachers protest for decent wages; killing and detention of HRDs Published at 25.08.2022 Country Venezuela Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship indigenous groups intimidation positive CS development HRD detained HRD killing labour rights protest censorship non state actors HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Honduras: continúan los ataques contra los defensores de los derechos humanos garífunas Published at 28.11.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on HRD minority groups HRD detained non state actors killing of journalist restrictive law HRD threatened HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Honduras: HRDs criminalised while changes to protection system spark concern Published at 22.09.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women indigenous groups minority groups harassment protest political interference censorship non state actors HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Honduras: la criminalización de los DDH y los cambios en el sistema de protección generan preocupación Published at 27.09.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women indigenous groups minority groups harassment protest political interference censorship non state actors HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Authorities continue to harass NagaWorld union strikers and criminalise activists and opposition members in Cambodia Published at 04.10.2022 Country Cambodia Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women harassment HRD detained negative court ruling labour rights excessive force sexual assault torture/ill-treatment restrictive law journalist detained HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Worrying trends: Vilification of CSOs and killings of HRDs Published at 30.08.2022 Country South Africa Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women refugees and migrants HRD killing public vilification extractive industries land rights non state actors Read more
Bolivia: coca growers’ protests marked by violence and use of excessive force Published at 15.09.2022 Country Bolivia Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption harassment attack on journalist excessive force violent protest bureaucratic restriction protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Mexico: attacks on environmental defenders on the rise Published at 02.11.2022 Country Mexico Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption intimidation harassment HRD killing enforced disappearance women indigenous groups refugees and migrants positive CS development protest violent protest enabling law protestor(s) detained environmental rights land rights Read more
Security laws being used to criminalise human rights defenders in Mongolia Published at 03.11.2022 Country Mongolia Category Latest Developments Tags: women private sector harassment HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Indonesian authorities criminalise activists, violently suppress protests around Papua Published at 19.05.2022 Country Indonesia Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption women intimidation harassment criminal defamation extractive industries killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment restrictive law violent protest protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Guatemala: protests against corruption and rising cost of living Published at 01.10.2022 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling indigenous groups protest land rights Read more
Civil society urges the UN to reject Vietnam’s bid for the Human Rights Council as it continues to arrest and jail activists Published at 21.09.2022 Country Vietnam Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups travel ban HRD detained negative court ruling excessive force criminal defamation protest restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Peru: attacks on journalists as political polarisation remains prominent Published at 27.10.2022 Country Peru Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption office raid attack on HRD intimidation harassment HRD detained HRD killing criminal defamation non state actors women indigenous groups attack on journalist protest extractive industries restrictive law journalist detained HRD threatened environmental rights land rights Read more
Honduras: attacks on Garífuna human rights defenders continue Published at 22.11.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on HRD minority groups HRD detained non state actors killing of journalist restrictive law HRD threatened HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Paraguay: September marked by killings of a journalist and a campesino leader Published at 20.12.2022 Country Paraguay Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling indigenous groups harassment HRD detained HRD killing negative court ruling labour rights criminal defamation protest killing of journalist prevention of protest non state actors private sector land rights Read more
Calls for accountability for disappeared activist Sombath Somphone, release of political prisoners as repression of civic space persists in Laos Published at 20.12.2022 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance censorship land rights harassment intimidation Read more
Brazil: anti-democratic demonstrations following presidential election Published at 21.12.2022 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption attack on HRD intimidation harassment HRD killing public vilification censorship non state actors women indigenous groups religious groups attack on journalist negative court ruling protest internet restriction violent protest political interference environmental rights land rights Read more
Argentina: economic crisis leads to recurrent protests Published at 30.12.2022 Country Argentina Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption intimidation harassment HRD detained excessive force public vilification censorship surveillance non state actors positive court ruling women indigenous groups attack on journalist negative court ruling labour rights protest restrictive law protestor(s) detained environmental rights land rights Read more
