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New security laws will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression, says civil society
- Published at
- 13.08.2018
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- refugees and migrants
- protest
Iranian authorities target human rights lawyers, while activists remain in detention
- Published at
- 17.08.2018
- Country
- Iran
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- killing of protestors
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest
Civil society uses OGP summit to call for more transparent partnership with government
- Published at
- 20.08.2018
- Country
- Georgia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
Opposition voices muzzled, as activists are arrested
- Published at
- 06.08.2018
- Country
- Zambia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- censorship
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- labour rights
- protest
- time,place restrictions
Civil society in Solomon Islands concerned about limitations in Anti-Corruption Bill
- Published at
- 25.07.2018
- Country
- Solomon Islands
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- land rights
- environmental rights
- women
- protestor(s) detained
- enabling law
Journalists arrested while covering asylum protest
- Published at
- 26.07.2018
- Country
- Belgium
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- refugees and migrants
- journalist detained
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
"You are warned": police threaten the public on discussing governance issues in the media and online
- Published at
- 27.07.2018
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- excessive force
- intimidation
Student wing of ruling party attacking activists, academics and journalists with impunity
- Published at
- 02.08.2018
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- non state actors
Largely peaceful protests prove effective for activists on environmental and social justice issues
- Published at
- 29.08.2018
- Country
- Canada
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
An ever-closing space for dissent: India cracks down on human rights defenders
- Published at
- 31.08.2018
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Thousands participate in the Women's march, while LGBTIQ group loses observer status with the ACHPR
- Published at
- 04.09.2018
- Country
- South Africa
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- surveillance
- labour rights
- protest
- non state actors
Photojournalist Shahidul Alam still in jail and a hundred charged, a month after student protests
- Published at
- 10.09.2018
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Civil society welcomes Supreme Court ruling over same-sex marriage
- Published at
- 11.09.2018
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
Two women arrested as protestors continue to oppose detention of migrant families
- Published at
- 14.09.2018
- Country
- Belgium
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- women
- protestor(s) detained
- refugees and migrants
- protest
UN fact-finding mission finds serious crimes fuelled by the silencing of critical voices
- Published at
- 19.09.2018
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- protest
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Conviction of former General involved in disappearances of activists important step for justice
- Published at
- 21.09.2018
- Country
- Philippines
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Teacher strikes met with police violence
- Published at
- 20.09.2018
- Country
- Eswatini
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- protest
Crackdown on independent media continues in Belarus
- Published at
- 25.09.2018
- Country
- Belarus
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- office raid
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- negative court ruling
- HRD threatened
Civic Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018
- Published at
- 02.10.2018
- Country
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- prevention of protest
- self censorship
- positive CS development
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- LGBTI
- bureaucratic restriction
- excessive force
- women
- release of HRDs
- time,place restrictions
- criminal defamation
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- labour rights
- refugees and migrants
- protest
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
Kabila not running for another term, but human rights concerns persist
- Published at
- 27.09.2018
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- land rights