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Journalists continue to work in a hostile environment in Guatemala
- Published at
- 26.08.2016
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- killing of journalist
- release of HRDs
- HRD killing
- women
Killing of human rights defenders worsens in 2016
- Published at
- 20.06.2016
- Country
- Colombia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- private sector
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- non state actors
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Court sentences accomplice in 2011 murder of Dominican journalist
- Published at
- 04.06.2018
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
Journalists and activists targeted as Yemen's conflict rages
- Published at
- 02.08.2016
- Country
- Yemen
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
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Abduction, torture used to repress protests in Zimbabwe
- Published at
- 21.12.2016
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- attack on HRD
- torture/ill-treatment
Attacks on civil society increased ahead of Djibouti election
- Published at
- 05.08.2016
- Country
- Djibouti
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of protestors
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- torture/ill-treatment
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
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LGBTI activist murdered as crackdown intensifies in Turkey
- Published at
- 04.10.2016
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- internet restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
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Attacks against HRDs and journalists continue to increase
- Published at
- 29.08.2018
- Country
- Colombia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- non state actors
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Authorities tighten surveillance of CSOs in the wake of terror attacks
- Published at
- 28.09.2016
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- LGBTI
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
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Civic space shrinks as journalists, activists, social media users and HR lawyers are attacked
- Published at
- 16.09.2016
- Country
- Burundi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on HRD
Torture, abduction and ethnic violence continue in Sri Lanka
- Published at
- 25.07.2016
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- positive CS development
- access to info. law
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Prominent human rights activist attacked
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- 14.11.2016
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- labour rights
- protest
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Land rights activists at risk of criminalisation in Guatemala
- Published at
- 25.10.2016
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- women
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- protest
- HRD detained
- access to info. law
- release of HRDs
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Authorities quell dissent as referendum success consolidates state power
- Published at
- 09.11.2016
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
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Leader of the Movimiento Campesino Unido murdered in Honduras
- Published at
- 26.10.2016
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
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South Sudan conflict continues to fuel attacks on media, civil society
- Published at
- 01.11.2016
- Country
- South Sudan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
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Four gang members convicted of assassinating journalist
- Published at
- 14.11.2016
- Country
- El Salvador
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- positive CS development
- private sector
- non state actors
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Attacks on LGBTI people continue in Georgia
- Published at
- 15.11.2016
- Country
- Georgia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- protest
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Human rights defenders continue to be killed in Guatemala
- Published at
- 20.12.2016
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- killing of journalist
- attack on journalist
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
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Human righs lawyer banned from travel outside the country
- Published at
- 23.02.2017
- Country
- Qatar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- attack on HRD