Authorities hinder civil society's monitoring and human rights activities in Rakhine Published at 26.07.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship self censorship religious groups minority groups travel ban Read more
NetzDG law enacted to combat hate speech but raises fears of censorship Published at 06.12.2017 Country Germany Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship censorship restrictive law Read more
Investigative journalism under attack: political influence impairs impartial reporting Published at 02.10.2017 Country Kosovo Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship attack on journalist women political interference protest Read more
Civil society mounts backlash against rampant attacks on journalists Published at 22.11.2017 Country Serbia Category Latest Developments Tags: public vilification attack on journalist violent protest labour rights non state actors self censorship funding restriction LGBTI women protest intimidation harassment Read more
Media impartiality under the spotlight in Bosnia and Herzegovina Published at 12.09.2017 Country Bosnia & Herzegovina Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship political interference intimidation censorship attack on journalist HRD threatened labour rights Read more
Deadly repression of protests amid partial internet shutdown in Anglophone Cameroon Published at 10.10.2017 Country Cameroon Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption self censorship harassment HRD detained excessive force protest internet restriction prevention of protest killing of protestors violent protest censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Public opinion against Duterte's war on drugs intensifies in wake of continued killings Published at 18.10.2017 Country Philippines Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship LGBTI protest intimidation attack on journalist enforced disappearance killing of journalist torture/ill-treatment censorship Read more
Investigative journalism under attack: CIVICUS Monitor speaks to award-winning journalist Published at 17.08.2017 Country Serbia Category Latest Developments Tags: political interference intimidation harassment attack on journalist HRD threatened self censorship women Read more
International civil society puts pressure on Sudanese authorities to respect human rights Published at 05.12.2017 Country Sudan Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship bureaucratic restriction political interference release of HRDs censorship HRD detained Read more
Teachers strike due to pay freeze from IMF agreement Published at 24.01.2018 Country Mongolia Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship attack on HRD labour rights environmental rights HRD killing protest Read more
Passage of Digital Security Act could impose further restrictions on freedom of expression Published at 31.01.2018 Country Bangladesh Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship censorship restrictive law internet restriction Read more
Proposed laws could criminalise whistle-blowers and silence civil society Published at 14.02.2018 Country Australia Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship funding restriction refugees and migrants HRD detained excessive force protest torture/ill-treatment restrictive law bureaucratic restriction Read more
Several journalists killed and more than 1,600 protesters injured in Gaza Published at 08.05.2018 Country Palestine Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of protestors restrictive law self censorship protest disruption attack on HRD attack on journalist HRD killing excessive force killing of journalist bureaucratic restriction Read more
Human rights defenders face threats and judicial harassment Published at 01.06.2018 Country Cameroon Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship LGBTI harassment excessive force criminal defamation non state actors censorship HRD threatened HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Unending restrictions on civic freedoms Published at 02.05.2018 Country Turkey Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI protest disruption women self censorship release of HRDs HRD detained HRD killing excessive force torture/ill-treatment restrictive law HRD acquitted censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained time,place restrictions Read more
Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities Published at 01.05.2018 Country Pakistan Category Latest Developments Tags: political interference censorship self censorship funding restriction attack on HRD CSO closure intimidation harassment surveillance protest enforced disappearance protestor(s) detained Read more
Demands for release of political prisoners in Bhutan Published at 20.04.2020 Country Bhutan Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship LGBTI restrictive law intimidation Read more
Blatant attempts to manipulate elections and assault civic freedoms, says Pakistani civil society Published at 23.07.2018 Country Pakistan Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on HRD intimidation torture/ill-treatment attack on journalist harassment protestor(s) detained self censorship journalist detained surveillance political interference non state actors Read more
Civic Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018 Published at 02.10.2018 Country Bosnia & Herzegovina Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship prevention of protest self censorship positive CS development funding restriction protest disruption minority groups HRD detained LGBTI bureaucratic restriction excessive force women release of HRDs time,place restrictions criminal defamation attack on journalist public vilification labour rights refugees and migrants protest violent protest protestor(s) detained Read more
NGO faces shut down, as blogger is sentenced for tweet Published at 05.10.2018 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship censorship CSO closure intimidation Read more
Civil society says shutting down of international NGOs an ‘attack on civic freedoms’ Published at 17.10.2018 Country Pakistan Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship women CSO closure minority groups travel ban attack on journalist HRD detained criminal defamation killing of journalist censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
