Release of IWACU four journalists, refugees experience human rights violations Published at 22.06.2021 Country Burundi Category Latest Developments Tags: refugees and migrants enabling law Read more
Peru: polarised elections lead to protests and attacks on journalists Published at 05.08.2021 Country Peru Category Latest Developments Tags: women indigenous groups intimidation environmental rights harassment positive CS development attack on journalist HRD killing protest public vilification political interference enabling law access to info. law HRD threatened non state actors Read more
Chile: journalist Francisca Sandoval dies after being shot when covering protest Published at 09.06.2022 Country Chile Category Latest Developments Tags: youth women indigenous groups positive CS development attack on journalist labour rights protest killing of journalist enabling law environmental rights non state actors Read more
Brazil: environmental and land defenders killed, journalists attacked and pandemic data blackout Published at 18.01.2022 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: internet restriction restrictive law enabling law HRD threatened environmental rights land rights youth attack on HRD harassment HRD killing criminal defamation non state actors women indigenous groups minority groups positive CS development attack on journalist protest Read more
Brazil’s civic space in dispute amid democratic backsliding Published at 19.08.2021 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: protest women indigenous groups enabling law release of HRDs positive CS development protest disruption HRD prosecuted intimidation harassment HRD detained excessive force attack on journalist criminal defamation negative court ruling censorship positive court ruling environmental rights Read more
Brasil: espaço cívico em disputa em meio ao retrocesso democrático Published at 23.08.2021 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: criminal defamation enabling law censorship attack on journalist positive court ruling HRD prosecuted women negative court ruling indigenous groups protest disruption intimidation harassment release of HRDs HRD detained protest excessive force positive CS development environmental rights Read more
Honduras: Guapinol water defenders released after trial annulled by Supreme Court Published at 23.03.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups release of HRDs HRD prosecuted HRD acquitted bureaucratic restriction harassment HRD threatened attack on journalist women attack on HRD extractive industries enabling law environmental rights non state actors Read more
USA: bills restrict freedom of expression in the classroom; massive protests in Puerto Rico Published at 10.03.2022 Country United States of America Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI minority groups intimidation surveillance labour rights protest political interference restrictive law enabling law censorship protestor(s) detained non state actors Read more
Colombia: surveillance of civil society and detention of protest leaders Published at 02.03.2022 Country Colombia Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD intimidation harassment HRD detained HRD killing criminal defamation surveillance non state actors women indigenous groups release of HRDs positive CS development attack on journalist labour rights protest enabling law protestor(s) detained HRD threatened land rights self censorship youth Read more
Ecuador: Amnesty granted to 268 rights defenders and protesters Published at 30.03.2022 Country Ecuador Category Latest Developments Tags: women indigenous groups HRD killing harassment public vilification positive CS development protest positive court ruling attack on journalist excessive force enabling law environmental rights land rights Read more
Chile: same-sex marriage legalised; Gabriel Boric sworn in as President Published at 30.03.2022 Country Chile Category Latest Developments Tags: women refugees and migrants positive CS development protest LGBTI violent protest restrictive law enabling law environmental rights surveillance private sector Read more
Se aprueba el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo y Gabriel Boric toma posesión como presidente Published at 11.04.2022 Country Chile Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI women refugees and migrants positive CS development protest violent protest restrictive law enabling law environmental rights surveillance private sector Read more
La Corte Suprema anula el juicio de los defensores del agua de Guapinol y los deja en libertad Published at 01.04.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD HRD threatened minority groups release of HRDs harassment HRD prosecuted attack on journalist extractive industries environmental rights bureaucratic restriction enabling law women HRD acquitted non state actors Read more
Ecuador: amnistían a 268 manifestantes y defensores de derechos Published at 11.04.2022 Country Ecuador Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women indigenous groups harassment positive CS development attack on journalist HRD killing excessive force protest enabling law environmental rights land rights Read more
Brazil: shocking violence on HRDs and journalists continues Published at 26.04.2022 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: youth attack on HRD intimidation enabling law harassment HRD killing killing of journalist censorship environmental rights access to info. law private sector non state actors women indigenous groups refugees and migrants attack on journalist protest extractive industries restrictive law land rights Read more
Landmark court judgment decriminalises same sex relationships Published at 04.05.2022 Country Botswana Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI enabling law Read more
Costa Rica: partial veto of new Access to Information Law Published at 11.05.2022 Country Costa Rica Category Latest Developments Tags: protest enabling law access to info. law youth women indigenous groups HRD threatened attack on HRD harassment positive CS development HRD detained non state actors land rights Read more
Costa Rica: veto parcial a la nueva ley de acceso a la información Published at 17.05.2022 Country Costa Rica Category Latest Developments Tags: positive CS development HRD detained HRD threatened non state actors youth women protest indigenous groups enabling law attack on HRD harassment access to info. law land rights Read more
President Suluhu acts on promise to expand media freedoms, arbitrary arrests of journalists continue Published at 17.05.2022 Country Tanzania Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship indigenous groups release of HRDs harassment positive CS development protest enabling law journalist detained land rights Read more
Belize signs Escazú Agreement but delays its ratification Published at 23.02.2023 Country Belize Category Latest Developments Tags: environmental rights enabling law Read more
Chile three years on from social uprising Published at 23.02.2023 Country Chile Category Latest Developments Tags: women intimidation journalist detained positive CS development attack on journalist protestor(s) detained environmental rights negative court ruling labour rights criminal defamation protest enabling law protest disruption Read more
