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Environmental concerns among civil society and citizens continue to cause tension
Published at
03.10.2017
Country
Albania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- private sector
- intimidation
- environmental rights
- attack on journalist
- protest
- non state actors
Intimidation, prosecution and detention: closing spaces for dissent in Thailand
Published at
29.09.2017
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- labour rights
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- criminal defamation
- HRD detained
- private sector
- extractive industries
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Press freedom violations persist in Calabria
Published at
01.11.2017
Country
Italy
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- non state actors
- private sector
- intimidation
HRDs in Panama face legal harassment from private companies
Published at
10.11.2017
Country
Panama
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- private sector
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- protest
Opposing voices and views on presidential age limit removal not tolerated
Published at
07.11.2017
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- environmental rights
- non state actors
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- extractive industries
- killing of protestors
- private sector
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- HRD prosecuted
Death knell for democracy as political opposition dissolved
Published at
20.11.2017
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD threatened
- political interference
- private sector
- intimidation
- environmental rights
- negative court ruling
- protest
Authorities target land and indigenous rights activism
Published at
19.12.2017
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- private sector
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
Foreign funding restrictions a "threat" to civil society in Ireland
Published at
21.12.2017
Country
Ireland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- funding restriction
- private sector
Environmental rights defender killed as authorities label activists as ‘terrorists’
Published at
27.03.2018
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- youth
- women
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- political interference
- private sector
- censorship
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Indigenous rights community attacked and defenders harassed
Published at
29.01.2018
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- land rights
- private sector
- non state actors
More protests organised by Movimiento Marcha Verde
Published at
30.01.2018
Country
Dominican Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- private sector
Student activists ill-treated by security forces during protests
Published at
31.01.2018
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- private sector
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
- attack on HRD
Civic freedoms under threat from new laws in UK
Published at
08.01.2018
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- positive CS development
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- access to info. law
- surveillance
- private sector
Eritrean refugees take labour rights case to Canadian court
Published at
23.01.2018
Country
Eritrea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- labour rights
- protest
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- private sector
Local residents mobilised in protest over construction project in community
Published at
06.02.2018
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- private sector
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
European far-right meeting draws protests in Prague
Published at
17.01.2018
Country
Czech Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- public vilification
- political interference
- private sector
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- minority groups
- non state actors
First ever lesbian festival organised by civil society in Namibia
Published at
25.01.2018
Country
Namibia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- extractive industries
- private sector
- labour rights
- protest
Court rules in favour of locked out airport workers
Published at
27.02.2018
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- private sector
- positive court ruling
- protest
- labour rights
Protests over Congress' inaction on immigration, racial justice and gun control
Published at
27.02.2018
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- public vilification
- private sector
- restrictive law
- positive court ruling
- women
- refugees and migrants
- enabling law
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
- sexual assault
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- environmental rights
Ombudsman announces plans to create a protection mechanism for HRDs
Published at
02.03.2018
Country
Panama
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- indigenous groups
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- private sector
- protest