2018: a lethal year for land and environmental defenders in Guatemala Published at 16.08.2018 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling indigenous groups positive CS development attack on journalist HRD killing excessive force protest extractive industries restrictive law non state actors environmental rights land rights Read more
Journalists and humanitarian worker killed as conflict continues Published at 10.07.2018 Country Yemen Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance killing of journalist office raid journalist detained attack on journalist HRD killing protest Read more
Iranian authorities block Iran's most widely used messaging app Published at 16.07.2018 Country Iran Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women HRD killing excessive force protest internet restriction killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Hun Sen increases restrictions on media and online expression in Cambodia ahead of elections Published at 20.07.2018 Country Cambodia Category Latest Developments Tags: prevention of protest restrictive law HRD prosecuted bureaucratic restriction positive court ruling HRD killing HRD acquitted negative court ruling environmental rights criminal defamation internet restriction censorship journalist detained land rights Read more
President Kiir seeks to extend term limit, while aid workers are killed and abducted Published at 25.07.2018 Country South Sudan Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD killing attack on HRD Read more
India: anti-corruption activists under attack Published at 31.07.2018 Country India Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups HRD detained HRD killing protest killing of journalist violent protest access to info. law environmental rights non state actors Read more
An ever-closing space for dissent: India cracks down on human rights defenders Published at 31.08.2018 Country India Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD intimidation protest disruption release of HRDs women harassment HRD detained HRD killing censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD threatened HRD prosecuted Read more
Brazil continues to be a hostile place for journalists, two killed in recent months Published at 19.09.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of journalist women indigenous groups HRD killing HRD threatened non state actors Read more
Conviction of former General involved in disappearances of activists important step for justice Published at 21.09.2018 Country Philippines Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption HRD killing labour rights criminal defamation protest enforced disappearance restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Environment for defenders continues to be hostile with one WHRD killed in July Published at 20.09.2018 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: protest internet restriction political interference time,place restrictions censorship environmental rights positive court ruling women indigenous groups harassment attack on journalist HRD detained HRD killing land rights Read more
One more HRD killed in Guatemala, 21 have been killed so far in 2018 Published at 27.09.2018 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI women indigenous groups attack on HRD intimidation HRD detained HRD killing Read more
Guatemalan ombudsman warns about deterioration of freedom of expression Published at 20.11.2019 Country Guatemala Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on journalist HRD killing protest land rights Read more
Honduras: amenazas y ataques contra las mujeres defensoras de los DD. HH. Published at 20.12.2019 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI protest disruption indigenous groups attack on HRD women intimidation HRD killing labour rights protest internet restriction killing of journalist environmental rights Read more
Reprisals against activists for 2020 protests unabating Published at 30.09.2021 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: political interference harassment HRD killing negative court ruling HRD prosecuted HRD threatened Read more
Tres personas defensoras de los DD. HH. hondureñas asesinadas en una semana Published at 07.02.2020 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: women indigenous groups intimidation harassment HRD killing HRD threatened environmental rights non state actors Read more
Three Honduran human rights defenders killed in one week Published at 04.02.2020 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment HRD killing HRD threatened environmental rights non state actors women indigenous groups Read more
Women human rights defenders are targets of threats and attacks in Honduras Published at 18.12.2019 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: internet restriction killing of journalist positive court ruling LGBTI protest disruption indigenous groups attack on HRD women intimidation HRD killing labour rights protest environmental rights Read more
Three defenders and a journalist killed in early 2020 in Mexico Published at 12.02.2020 Country Mexico Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI women refugees and migrants intimidation harassment attack on journalist HRD killing labour rights protest killing of journalist journalist detained environmental rights Read more
HRD Killed by Stray Bullet, journalists harassed and detained Published at 27.01.2020 Country Somalia Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment attack on journalist journalist detained HRD killing labour rights censorship non state actors Read more
Protesters, activists, journalists & aid workers attacked, kidnapped, killed, as protests escalate Published at 25.02.2020 Country Iraq Category Latest Developments Tags: youth HRD detained protest disruption intimidation office raid killing of journalist excessive force enforced disappearance attack on HRD CSO closure harassment HRD killing killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment censorship non state actors women attack on journalist protest internet restriction violent protest protestor(s) detained HRD threatened Read more
An Indigenous leader killed and another shot in the leg by land invaders in Costa Rica Published at 20.03.2020 Country Costa Rica Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups attack on HRD intimidation harassment HRD killing land rights non state actors Read more
