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Thursday 31.10.2019 Chile - Latest Developments
“Chile has awoken”: several demonstrators killed and thousands detained in massive protests
Over a million people took to the streets in Chile during October 2019, in what started as a protest against higher transportation tariffs and developed into a nationwide movement. On 4th October 2019, a 30 peso (US$ 0.04) increase in metro fares was announced, prompting student-led protests. As the government cracked down on demonstrators, thousands of people joined in to express their general discontent with Chile’s high living costs and growing inequality. Read more
Thursday 11.7.2019 China - Latest Developments
Hong Kong protests met with excessive force as activists suppressed around Tiananmen anniversary
Since March 2019, activists in China have been arrested for their work and human rights lawyers banned from leaving the country while peaceful protesters have been detained by the authorities. In Hong Kong there has been mass protests against an extradition bill which has been met with excessive force by the police while surveillance was ramped up around the Tiananmen anniversary. Read more
Wednesday 3.7.2019 Sudan - Latest Developments
Protests in Sudan continue amid crackdown and internet blackout
In the latest mass protests in Sudan that took place on 30th June 2019, at least eleven people were killed, while over 180 were injured. Despite the Sudanese security forces’ violent crackdown of the peaceful sit-in on 3rd June 2019 in Khartoum, Sudanese people continued to mobilise to demand that the military hand over power to a civilian-led administration. Read more
Monday 1.7.2019 Papua New Guinea - Latest Developments
Attacks and threats against human rights defenders persist in Papua New Guinea
In recent months, civil society has reported the ongoing threats against human rights defenders, proposals to regulate social media by the government and protests by refugees on Manus island as they situation there deteriorates. Read more
Wednesday 5.6.2019 Tunisia - Latest Developments
Tunisia civic space under threat by emergency bill and attempts to undermine transitional justice
A repressive state of emergency draft bill is under discussion in parliament, while the state of emergency has been continuously extended for almost four years during which emergency powers have been abused resulting in human rights violations. The new bill could grant Tunisian authorities sweeping powers to repress civic rights. Additionally, in April, the Ministry of Human Rights and Relations with Civil Society distributed confidentially a proposal to parliament that would effectively ensure impunity for past gross human rights violations, many against peaceful protesters, and grant perpetrators amnesty, an attempt that will undermine victim's rights and civil society mobilisation for justice. Read more
Monday 20.5.2019 Albania - Latest Developments
Tirana witnesses violent protests as anger spills onto the streets
For over thirty-five days in early January 2019, despite the freezing temperatures, students protested in Tirana for better living and studying conditions. Classes were boycotted while students waited for Prime Minister Edi Rama to answer to their demands, including the full withdrawal of the 2015 Law on High Education. Read more
Wednesday 15.5.2019 Honduras - Latest Developments
Environmental activists face harassment and attacks
The protection of land and environmental rights continues to be a high-risk activity in Honduras. Read more
Wednesday 20.3.2019 Sudan - Latest Developments
Women on front line of peaceful protests bear the brunt of violent crackdown amid state of emergency
The Sudanese government stepped up its violent crackdown to suppress peaceful anti-government protests that have been ongoing in Khartoum and Sudan’s provinces almost every day for the past three months, since December 2018. Read more
Wednesday 19.12.2018 Bulgaria - Latest Developments
Investigative journalists suspicious of official version of Viktoria Marinova's killing
On 6th October 2018, Viktoria Marinova, a Bulgarian journalist, presenter and administrative director of the local TV channel TVN was found dead in the town of Ruse. Read more
Tuesday 16.10.2018 Nepal - Latest Developments
Press freedom at risk with new Criminal Code restrictions
In August 2018, Nepal’s new Criminal Codes Act came into effect. Human rights and media organization have raised serious about the new law and its impact on press freedom in Nepal. Read more
