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Laos increases controls on social media news sites while anti-land grab protesters jailed
- Published at
- 05.09.2019
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- release of HRDs
- minority groups
- enforced disappearance
- land rights
Online safety law raises fears of increased censorship in Fiji after hotly contested election
- Published at
- 28.02.2019
- Country
- Fiji
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- restrictive law
- environmental rights
- censorship
- protest
- land rights
Ongoing attacks against environmental activists and journalists in India while critics harassed
- Published at
- 10.09.2019
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- environmental rights
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- extractive industries
- time,place restrictions
- non state actors
- HRD threatened
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- restrictive law
- minority groups
- land rights
Media censored, activists silenced and opposition weakened ahead of Thai elections
- Published at
- 21.03.2019
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
Student activists detained during protest against evictions in Taiwan
- Published at
- 15.04.2019
- Country
- Taiwan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- women
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- land rights
Indigenous activists in NZ continue struggle to block development at Ihumātao
- Published at
- 29.11.2019
- Country
- New Zealand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- environmental rights
- harassment
- protest disruption
- land rights
Namibians take to the streets in separate protests
- Published at
- 04.11.2019
- Country
- Namibia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- extractive industries
- environmental rights
- labour rights
- protest
- land rights
Abelino Chub Caal released amid increasing attacks against HRDs
- Published at
- 07.05.2019
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD acquitted
- LGBTI
- women
- attack on HRD
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- HRD killing
- land rights
Arbitrary arrests, judicial harassment and attacks on activists and critics in India persist
- Published at
- 13.05.2019
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- youth
- women
- attack on HRD
- restrictive law
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- HRD threatened
- criminal defamation
- environmental rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- land rights
Attacks and threats against human rights defenders persist in Papua New Guinea
- Published at
- 01.07.2019
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- LGBTI
- women
- public vilification
- harassment
- indigenous groups
- sexual assault
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights
Environmental activists face harassment and attacks
- Published at
- 15.05.2019
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- harassment
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- HRD threatened
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- women
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- protest
- sexual assault
- land rights
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
Sustained attack on civic freedoms in Myanmar with ongoing prosecutions and internet blackout
- Published at
- 16.08.2019
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- criminal defamation
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
Land rights defender Delfino Agustin Vidal murdered
- Published at
- 03.04.2019
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- women
- restrictive law
- HRD killing
- intimidation
- protest
- land rights
Protests in Honduras have left at least 3 demonstrators dead and several injured
- Published at
- 19.08.2019
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- protest
- violent protest
- youth
- harassment
- restrictive law
- HRD killing
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- environmental rights
- land rights
Mass protests in Colombia demand response to persistent violence against social leaders
- Published at
- 19.09.2019
- Country
- Colombia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- land rights
- protest
- killing of journalist
- public vilification
Protests in Indonesia against weakening of labour laws as activists and critics are silenced
- Published at
- 16.04.2020
- Country
- Indonesia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- labour rights
- excessive force
- LGBTI
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- women
- indigenous groups
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- restrictive law
- land rights
Manifestaciones exigen respuesta a la violencia persistente contra líderes sociales
- Published at
- 25.09.2019
- Country
- Colombia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- land rights
- protest
- public vilification
Las Bambas mine blockade lasts 60 days and ends in arrest of leaders
- Published at
- 01.04.2019
- Country
- Peru
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- extractive industries
- private sector
- land rights
Restrictive bills still being pushed by Nepali lawmakers as protests around Xi’s visit stifled
- Published at
- 16.10.2019
- Country
- Nepal
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- land rights
- indigenous groups