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Laos increases controls on social media news sites while anti-land grab protesters jailed
Published at
05.09.2019
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- release of HRDs
- minority groups
- enforced disappearance
- land rights

Online safety law raises fears of increased censorship in Fiji after hotly contested election
Published at
28.02.2019
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- restrictive law
- environmental rights
- censorship
- protest
- land rights

Ongoing attacks against environmental activists and journalists in India while critics harassed
Published at
10.09.2019
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- environmental rights
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- extractive industries
- time,place restrictions
- non state actors
- HRD threatened
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- restrictive law
- minority groups
- land rights

Media censored, activists silenced and opposition weakened ahead of Thai elections
Published at
21.03.2019
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption

Student activists detained during protest against evictions in Taiwan
Published at
15.04.2019
Country
Taiwan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- women
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- land rights

Indigenous activists in NZ continue struggle to block development at Ihumātao
Published at
29.11.2019
Country
New Zealand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- environmental rights
- harassment
- protest disruption
- land rights

Namibians take to the streets in separate protests
Published at
04.11.2019
Country
Namibia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- extractive industries
- environmental rights
- labour rights
- protest
- land rights

Abelino Chub Caal released amid increasing attacks against HRDs
Published at
07.05.2019
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD acquitted
- LGBTI
- women
- attack on HRD
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- HRD killing
- land rights

Arbitrary arrests, judicial harassment and attacks on activists and critics in India persist
Published at
13.05.2019
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- youth
- women
- attack on HRD
- restrictive law
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- HRD threatened
- criminal defamation
- environmental rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- land rights

Attacks and threats against human rights defenders persist in Papua New Guinea
Published at
01.07.2019
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- LGBTI
- women
- public vilification
- harassment
- indigenous groups
- sexual assault
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights

Environmental activists face harassment and attacks
Published at
15.05.2019
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- harassment
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- HRD threatened
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- women
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- protest
- sexual assault
- land rights

Ongoing use of defamation laws raises questions of Malaysia’s reform credentials
Published at
25.07.2019
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation

Sustained attack on civic freedoms in Myanmar with ongoing prosecutions and internet blackout
Published at
16.08.2019
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- criminal defamation
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- internet restriction
- extractive industries

Land rights defender Delfino Agustin Vidal murdered
Published at
03.04.2019
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- women
- restrictive law
- HRD killing
- intimidation
- protest
- land rights

Protests in Honduras have left at least 3 demonstrators dead and several injured
Published at
19.08.2019
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- protest
- violent protest
- youth
- harassment
- restrictive law
- HRD killing
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- environmental rights
- land rights

Mass protests in Colombia demand response to persistent violence against social leaders
Published at
19.09.2019
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- land rights
- protest
- killing of journalist
- public vilification

Protests in Indonesia against weakening of labour laws as activists and critics are silenced
Published at
16.04.2020
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- labour rights
- excessive force
- LGBTI
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- women
- indigenous groups
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- restrictive law
- land rights

Manifestaciones exigen respuesta a la violencia persistente contra líderes sociales
Published at
25.09.2019
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- land rights
- protest
- public vilification

Las Bambas mine blockade lasts 60 days and ends in arrest of leaders
Published at
01.04.2019
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- extractive industries
- private sector
- land rights

Restrictive bills still being pushed by Nepali lawmakers as protests around Xi’s visit stifled
Published at
16.10.2019
Country
Nepal
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- land rights
- indigenous groups