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Countrywide protests to end police brutality in the United States met by militarised law enforcement
Published at
22.06.2020
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- attack on journalist
- protest
- violent protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

TransIndex staff resign citing political pressure; Senate approves anti-LGBTQI+ law
Published at
09.06.2022
Country
Romania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- harassment
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- censorship

Canada: use of emergency powers to disperse protests under scrutiny
Published at
23.06.2022
Country
Canada
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protestor(s) detained
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- intimidation
- HRD prosecuted
- labour rights
- protest
- private sector
- environmental rights

Truckers strike for higher wages in South Korea while trial of activist continues
Published at
06.07.2022
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- protest
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI

Government cements further power over media; effects of anti-LGBTQI law seen
Published at
06.12.2021
Country
Hungary
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- funding restriction
- harassment
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- surveillance

Guatemala: concern over killings, criminalisation and harassment of HRDs
Published at
13.01.2022
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- extractive industries
- intimidation
- environmental rights
- protest

Preocupación por asesinatos, criminalización y acoso de defensores de los y las DD. HH.
Published at
20.01.2022
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- environmental rights
- protest
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- extractive industries
- intimidation

Ongoing violations on civic freedoms at Poland/Belarus border; further threats to LGBTQI+ rights
Published at
21.01.2022
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- access to info. law
- surveillance
- youth
- protest disruption
- office raid
- non state actors
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Ongoing harassment, threats and criminalisation of activists and journalists in Indonesia
Published at
26.01.2022
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Arrest of activist and restrictive NGO laws proposed a regressive step by Mongolian authorities
Published at
09.03.2022
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- protest disruption
- restrictive law

Threats on civic freedoms continue as government attempts to evade accountability
Published at
04.02.2022
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD acquitted
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- protest
- restrictive law
- environmental rights

Les associations ripostent à l'entrée en vigueur de la loi sur le séparatisme
Published at
24.05.2022
Country
France
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- women
- protest
- refugees and migrants
- public vilification
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- restrictive law
- surveillance

Nieustające naruszenia wolności obywatelskich na granicy polsko-białoruskiej
Published at
08.02.2022
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- access to info. law
- intimidation
- bureaucratic restriction
- harassment
- youth
- protest disruption
- criminal defamation
- surveillance
- censorship
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- women
- LGBTI
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Brazil’s civic space in dispute amid democratic backsliding
Published at
19.08.2021
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- women
- indigenous groups
- enabling law
- release of HRDs
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- HRD prosecuted
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- negative court ruling
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- environmental rights

Brasil: espaço cívico em disputa em meio ao retrocesso democrático
Published at
23.08.2021
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- enabling law
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- positive court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- negative court ruling
- indigenous groups
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- protest
- excessive force
- positive CS development
- environmental rights

Anti-xenophobia protest banned, court issues progressive judgment on expression
Published at
23.03.2022
Country
South Africa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- protest

Assault on civic freedoms continue in Sri Lanka as an economic crisis hits the country
Published at
29.03.2022
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- positive court ruling
- time,place restrictions
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- torture/ill-treatment
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law

Ecuador: Amnesty granted to 268 rights defenders and protesters
Published at
30.03.2022
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- HRD killing
- harassment
- public vilification
- positive CS development
- protest
- positive court ruling
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enabling law
- environmental rights
- land rights

Peru: protests over price rises and violence against human rights defenders
Published at
12.04.2022
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- violent protest
- time,place restrictions
- environmental rights
- non state actors
- restrictive law
- positive court ruling
- women
- journalist detained
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- negative court ruling
- harassment
- protest
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- HRD prosecuted
- killing of protestors
- extractive industries
- land rights

Despite UN review, Thai government continues to silence dissent, push restrictive NGO bill
Published at
04.04.2022
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- labour rights
- restrictive law
- public vilification
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption