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Latvia tightens border controls; Refugee aid worker’s criminal case continues; Activist expelled based on tip-off from state security informant
Published at
31.07.2025
Country
Latvia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- travel ban
- protest
- political interference
- censorship
Former parliamentarians and Bedoon rights defender targeted, migrant workers at risk of abuse
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure killed; UCR students targeted over peaceful protests
Published at
28.08.2025
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD killing
- protest
- violent protest
- environmental rights
Civil society warns of negative impact of funding cuts, Supreme Court acquits pro-Palestinian protesters
Published at
31.07.2025
Country
Estonia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest
- environmental rights
- intimidation
Killing of EHRD in Sucumbíos; Escalating attacks on press freedom
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- political interference
- private sector
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Asesinan a un opositor nicaragüense exiliado y atacan a miembros del estudiantado de la UCR a raíz de protestas pacíficas
Published at
05.09.2025
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD killing
- protest
- violent protest
- environmental rights
HRDs attacked and detained while monitoring protests; Clashes and detentions during nationwide protests
Published at
08.02.2025
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- access to info. law
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- political interference
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
Bangladesh: Concerns around new ordinances, opposition ban and arrests and lack of police reform
Published at
09.09.2025
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- labour rights
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
Monaco: Emphasis on non-profit organisations’ transparency
Published at
09.09.2025
Country
Monaco
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
Snap election sees support double for the far-right; Continued crackdown on Palestine solidarity, protesters and NGOs under pressure
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
Germany
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- office raid
- intimidation
- excessive force
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- access to info. law
- positive court ruling
- women
- refugees and migrants
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- political interference
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- youth
Environmental defenders face criminalisation in Paso Yobái; Journalists assaulted and threatened
Published at
10.09.2025
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
Slew of convictions for dissent
Published at
18.09.2025
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- place restrictions
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Environmental defenders face criminalisation amid mining conflict in Las Naves; Journalist killed in Quinindé
Published at
01.04.2025
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- women
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- killing of journalist
- HRD acquitted
- access to info. law
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Constitutional Court judges vilified; Civil society curbed by new laws; Excessive force and criminalisation of EHRDs in Las Naves
Published at
22.09.2025
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
Supreme Court of British Columbia finds police violated rights of Wet’suwet’en land defenders
Published at
11.04.2025
Country
Canada
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- access to info. law
- HRD prosecuted
Australia: Authorities attempt to restrict protests, criminalise protesters and use excessive force despite UN review
Published at
01.10.2025
Country
Australia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- surveillance
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- torture/ill-treatment
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Criminalizan a personas defensoras del medioambiente en Paso Yobái; agreden y amenazan a profesionales del periodismo
Published at
19.09.2025
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
Malta: Large mobilisation against planning bills
Published at
16.10.2025
Country
Malta
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- land rights
- intimidation
Union funding dispute and labour protests highlight growing tensions between Government and workers
Published at
14.04.2025
Country
Grenada
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
Vilipendio contra miembros de la Corte Constitucional; nuevas leyes constriñen la sociedad civil; uso excesivo de la fuerza y criminalización de PDDHM en Las Naves
Published at
30.09.2025
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship