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Despite UN rights review, attacks on press freedom continue in PNG with suspension of journalist
- Published at
- 15.02.2022
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- women
- political interference
Human rights defender arrested, charged
- Published at
- 04.12.2023
- Country
- Gambia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- HRD prosecuted
Criminal defamation provisions create a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Vanuatu
- Published at
- 24.08.2021
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
Several civil society protests banned; journalist sentenced to prison for criminal defamation
- Published at
- 29.10.2021
- Country
- Senegal
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest disruption
- women
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- environmental rights
Three human rights defenders arbitrarily detained in Venezuela
- Published at
- 27.09.2021
- Country
- Venezuela
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- censorship
- office raid
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD prosecuted
El Salvador: human rights defenders arbitrarily detained during state of emergency
- Published at
- 04.05.2022
- Country
- El Salvador
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- extractive industries
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD detained
- surveillance
- protest
- public vilification
- environmental rights
Belarusian human rights activist denied asylum over “security concerns”
- Published at
- 20.11.2023
- Country
- Lithuania
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- transnational repression
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
Crackdown against human rights defenders ahead of Bahrain's UPR
- Published at
- 09.05.2017
- Country
- Bahrain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
Human rights defender targeted with spyware
- Published at
- 23.10.2016
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- women
- surveillance
Human rights defenders still at risk from state actors and businesses
- Published at
- 06.12.2018
- Country
- Mongolia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- protest
- HRD threatened
- criminal defamation
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
Protests disrupted by police, met with excessive force in Nepal as UN reviews its rights record
- Published at
- 05.02.2021
- Country
- Nepal
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Criminal defamation proposal will weaken democracy in Timor-Leste, says civil society
- Published at
- 18.08.2020
- Country
- Timor-Leste
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
Human rights defenders at risk as war continues in Yemen
- Published at
- 01.08.2018
- Country
- Yemen
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
Spotlight on Sudan for Systematic Human Rights Abuses
- Published at
- 26.09.2016
- Country
- Sudan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- office raid
- torture/ill-treatment
- excessive force
A violent beginning of the year for Honduras’ human rights defenders
- Published at
- 06.03.2023
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- HRD killing
- non state actors
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- environmental rights
- HRD threatened
- private sector
- land rights
Saudi Arabia continues to detain, harass and torture human rights defenders
- Published at
- 21.01.2021
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- labour rights
- refugees and migrants
- HRD prosecuted
Woman human rights defender, blogger and Wikipedian targeted in Saudi Arabia
- Published at
- 15.04.2024
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
Vietnam: Human Rights Council membership and dialogues fail to stem repression against activists
- Published at
- 23.06.2023
- Country
- Vietnam
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Malaysia starts its UN Human Rights Council term by harassing activists, protesters and critics
- Published at
- 07.02.2022
- Country
- Malaysia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- office raid
- restrictive law
- harassment
- criminal defamation