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Environmental Defenders under pressure for opposing controversial oil project
Published at
28.06.2024
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- non state actors
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights

Media outlets face lawsuits over published articles
Published at
01.08.2024
Country
Lesotho
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- private sector

Threats against Indigenous environmental defenders; protest over new Machu Pichu ticketing system
Published at
10.04.2024
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
- public vilification
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

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

Crackdown on Peaceful Assembly and Expression amidst Israel's bombardment in Palestine
Published at
12.04.2024
Country
Israel
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened

New law restricts foreign media, terrorism charges target Palestinian Citizens in Israel
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Israel
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- youth
- refugees and migrants
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted

Three activists and journalists killed; Dozens detained and injured on International Women's Day
Published at
20.06.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened

Civic freedoms under threat amid rising political instability and criminal gang violence
Published at
14.10.2024
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Colombia’s crisis: wave of violence against human rights defenders; Tear gas and stun grenades disrupt peaceful Women’s Day March
Published at
11.04.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- minority groups
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Bernardo Arévalo sworn in as judge orders release of former prosecutor Virginia Laparra
Published at
16.02.2024
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- release of HRDs
- protest
- killing of journalist
- HRD acquitted
- surveillance
- HRD threatened

Timor-Leste: Ban on solidarity protests on West Papua and arrest of activists
Published at
08.11.2024
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- HRD threatened
- bureaucratic restriction

At least three Indigenous leaders murdered; Attacks on journalists raise press freedom concerns
Published at
05.09.2024
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Killing of environmental defender highlights ongoing violence against HRD
Published at
20.10.2024
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights

Violence targets journalists and human rights defenders without end
Published at
22.11.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Les libertés civiques menacées sur fond d'instabilité politique croissante et d'escalade de la violence des gangs
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Pakistan: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups
Published at
26.02.2025
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- women
- minority groups
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- place restrictions

Indonesia: Crackdown on protests, stifling of expression and repression in Papua continues in Prabowo’s first four months in power
Published at
27.02.2025
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights

India: Indigenous movement banned, protests stifled while activists and journalists targeted
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Deadly crackdown follows 2024 mass protests, surge in femicides sparks more protests
Published at
06.03.2025
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- women
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- self censorship
- youth
- transnational repression