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NetzDG law enacted to combat hate speech but raises fears of censorship
Published at
06.12.2017
Country
Germany
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- censorship
- restrictive law
Investigative journalism under attack: political influence impairs impartial reporting
Published at
02.10.2017
Country
Kosovo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on journalist
- women
- political interference
- protest
Civil society mounts backlash against rampant attacks on journalists
Published at
22.11.2017
Country
Serbia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- attack on journalist
- violent protest
- labour rights
- non state actors
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- women
- protest
- intimidation
- harassment
Media impartiality under the spotlight in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Published at
12.09.2017
Country
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- political interference
- intimidation
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- HRD threatened
- labour rights
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
Public opinion against Duterte's war on drugs intensifies in wake of continued killings
Published at
18.10.2017
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- protest
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
Investigative journalism under attack: CIVICUS Monitor speaks to award-winning journalist
Published at
17.08.2017
Country
Serbia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD threatened
- self censorship
- women
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
Teachers strike due to pay freeze from IMF agreement
Published at
24.01.2018
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- labour rights
- environmental rights
- HRD killing
- protest
Passage of Digital Security Act could impose further restrictions on freedom of expression
Published at
31.01.2018
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- censorship
- restrictive law
- internet restriction
Proposed laws could criminalise whistle-blowers and silence civil society
Published at
14.02.2018
Country
Australia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- refugees and migrants
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
Several journalists killed and more than 1,600 protesters injured in Gaza
Published at
08.05.2018
Country
Palestine
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of protestors
- restrictive law
- self censorship
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- bureaucratic restriction
Human rights defenders face threats and judicial harassment
Published at
01.06.2018
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- harassment
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- non state actors
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
Unending restrictions on civic freedoms
Published at
02.05.2018
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- self censorship
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- time,place restrictions
Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities
Published at
01.05.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- censorship
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
Demands for release of political prisoners in Bhutan
Published at
20.04.2020
Country
Bhutan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- restrictive law
- intimidation
Blatant attempts to manipulate elections and assault civic freedoms, says Pakistani civil society
Published at
23.07.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on journalist
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- self censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- political interference
- non state actors
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
NGO faces shut down, as blogger is sentenced for tweet
Published at
05.10.2018
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- censorship
- CSO closure
- intimidation
Civil society says shutting down of international NGOs an ‘attack on civic freedoms’
Published at
17.10.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- women
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained