UN expert raises concerns over restrictions on civic space in Sudan Published at 21.08.2017 Country Sudan Category Latest Developments Tags: office raid torture/ill-treatment CSO closure funding restriction bureaucratic restriction censorship HRD detained Read more
Protesters killed as security forces violently disperse opposition protests Published at 21.08.2017 Country Togo Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained protest disruption excessive force Read more
Human rights defender Nabeel Rajab sentenced to two years in prison Published at 28.08.2017 Country Bahrain Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation attack on journalist women HRD detained religious groups HRD prosecuted Read more
Local elections marred by irregularities and marginalisation of opposition Published at 14.06.2017 Country Cambodia Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment HRD detained intimidation political interference bureaucratic restriction Read more
Criminalisation of citizen journalism continues: Sol García Basulto under house arrest Published at 29.08.2017 Country Cuba Category Latest Developments Tags: women prevention of protest journalist detained religious groups harassment HRD detained Read more
Intimidation, prosecution and detention: closing spaces for dissent in Thailand Published at 29.09.2017 Country Thailand Category Latest Developments Tags: women labour rights intimidation release of HRDs criminal defamation HRD detained private sector extractive industries protest enforced disappearance censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained environmental rights non state actors Read more
More than 100 detained during protests, including 15 journalists Published at 07.09.2017 Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Category Latest Developments Tags: protestor(s) detained protest disruption attack on journalist HRD detained internet restriction prevention of protest violent protest bureaucratic restriction journalist detained non state actors Read more
"No sign of a positive evolution" says head of UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi Published at 25.08.2017 Country Burundi Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained Read more
Land rights defender arbitrarily detained for over 40 hours Published at 24.09.2017 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained prevention of protest women land rights Read more
Environment for civil society in Egypt: “among the darker and more dangerous” Published at 02.10.2017 Country Egypt Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment travel ban HRD detained negative court ruling enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment women restrictive law Read more
Anti-Gnassingbe protests continue: several deaths, arrests and harassement Published at 24.10.2017 Country Togo Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained violent protest excessive force protest disruption protestor(s) detained harassment prevention of protest time,place restrictions Read more
Deadly repression of protests amid partial internet shutdown in Anglophone Cameroon Published at 10.10.2017 Country Cameroon Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption self censorship harassment HRD detained excessive force protest internet restriction prevention of protest killing of protestors violent protest censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Chilling attacks on freedom of expression ahead of APEC Published at 03.11.2017 Country Vietnam Category Latest Developments Tags: journalist detained restrictive law intimidation censorship HRD detained women torture/ill-treatment Read more
Civil Society calls for investigation into death of popular musician and activist Published at 17.04.2020 Country Rwanda Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship HRD detained HRD prosecuted restrictive law Read more
Madagascar: "Almost if not all environmentalists are under threat" Published at 13.10.2017 Country Madagascar Category Latest Developments Tags: extractive industries political interference protest disruption release of HRDs HRD acquitted harassment HRD detained criminal defamation prevention of protest time,place restrictions HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Crackdown on activists, critical media, dissident voices intensifies in Tanzania Published at 23.10.2017 Country Tanzania Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI CSO closure intimidation HRD detained HRD killing internet restriction restrictive law censorship surveillance non state actors Read more
Central Yangon bans protests while critics are criminalised Published at 19.01.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained prevention of protest land rights restrictive law bureaucratic restriction Read more
International civil society puts pressure on Sudanese authorities to respect human rights Published at 05.12.2017 Country Sudan Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship bureaucratic restriction political interference release of HRDs censorship HRD detained Read more
Authorities target land and indigenous rights activism Published at 19.12.2017 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: women indigenous groups attack on HRD HRD detained attack on journalist excessive force protest extractive industries restrictive law private sector journalist detained environmental rights Read more
Fundamental rights remain under siege in the shadow of the economic crisis Published at 18.01.2018 Country Turkmenistan Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on HRD intimidation release of HRDs attack on journalist HRD detained protest internet restriction censorship journalist detained Read more
Palestinian youth persecuted and imprisoned for dissent against Israeli occupation Published at 22.01.2018 Country Palestine Category Latest Developments Tags: violent protest travel ban attack on journalist women HRD detained HRD prosecuted Read more
