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New law protects minority languages and expands their spheres of use
- Published at
- 06.11.2017
- Country
- Albania
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
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Secret transgender pageant emblematic of LGBTI intolerance in Indonesia
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- 16.11.2016
- Country
- Indonesia
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- LGBTI
- HRD detained
- killing of protestors
- minority groups
- censorship
Local groups worried about impending changes to civil society law
- Published at
- 01.07.2016
- Country
- Malawi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- access to info. law
- protest
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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LGBTI activist murdered as crackdown intensifies in Turkey
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- 04.10.2016
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- 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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Spate of threats against journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- 09.11.2016
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- Bosnia & Herzegovina
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- Latest Developments
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- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- protest
- private sector
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Tensions in Kashmir Reach Boiling Point
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- 11.10.2016
- Country
- India
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- Latest Developments
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- positive court ruling
- minority groups
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- private sector
- non state actors
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Protest rights increasingly undermined in USA
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- 21.10.2016
- Country
- United States of America
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- Latest Developments
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- women
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- surveillance
- private sector
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Killing of jaffna students prompts unrest in northern Sri Lanka
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- 26.10.2016
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- prevention of protest
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
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Protests against trans-Atlantic trade deals dominate headlines in Belgium
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- 11.11.2016
- Country
- Belgium
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- minority groups
- religious groups
- protest
- private sector
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Kurdish minority representatives the latest targets of Turkey's unending crackdown
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- 04.11.2016
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- harassment
- censorship
- internet restriction
- minority groups
- HRD detained
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Nearly 200 arrested during protests over Zwarte Piet in the Netherlands
- Published at
- 10.01.2017
- Country
- Netherlands
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- bureaucratic restriction
- time,place restrictions
- excessive force
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Violence in Rakhine state prompts international condemnation of authorities in Myanmar
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- 16.11.2016
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- minority groups
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Four dead after police open fire on protest in Jharkhand
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- 17.11.2016
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- HRD killing
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
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Refugees protest poor detention centre conditions on Australian-controlled Manus Island
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- 19.10.2017
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- internet restriction
- self censorship
- restrictive law
- protest
- refugees and migrants
- labour rights
- minority groups
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Another journalist attacked as Macedonia prepares for elections
- Published at
- 02.12.2016
- Country
- North Macedonia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
- minority groups
- LGBTI
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
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No let up in Russian authorities' harassment of civil society
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- 08.12.2016
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- intimidation
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
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Tougher laws choke civil society independence in Bangladesh
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- 15.12.2016
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- harassment
- HRD detained
- bureaucratic restriction
- indigenous groups
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
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Thousands march in Toronto and other cities to protest US muslim travel ban
- Published at
- 08.02.2017
- Country
- Canada
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- minority groups
- surveillance
- refugees and migrants
- protest
- private sector
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Conditions for investigative journalism show no sign of improvement in Serbia
- Published at
- 16.01.2017
- Country
- Serbia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- censorship
- access to info. law
- surveillance