Welcome to
Civil Society
Watch Bulletin, an e-newsletter
of
updates and analyses concerning civil society's rights to freedom of
association, assembly and expression around the world. The Bulletin is
compiled by the staff at Civil Society Watch, a programme of CIVICUS:
World Alliance for Citizen Participation. Please feel free to forward
the Bulletin to friends and colleagues. We welcome your comments and
contributions!
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CIVICUS:
World Alliance
for Citizen Participation is an
international
movement of civil society with members and partners in over a hundred
countries. CIVICUS nurtures the foundation, growth and protection of
citizen action throughout the world especially in areas where
participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are
threatened. The Civil Society Watch Project of CIVICUS seeks to
mobilise quick, principled and effective responses to events that
threaten civil society fundamental freedoms of expression, association
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UAE: Human
rights defender Abdullah Al-Hadidi released after 10 months in jail
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ZIMBABWE: Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa acquitted
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Highlights
CIVICUS launches new report, “Global trends on civil society
restrictions”
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CIVICUS denounces South Sudan’s NGO bill as “needlessly repressive”
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Global call for the protection of Civil Society in Sri Lanka
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More than 100 groups call on Zambian President to halt NGO law
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CIVICUS calls for release of South Korean environmental activists
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CIVICUS denounces crackdown on protestors and civil society in Sudan
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BAHRAIN:
UN finds detention of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab arbitrary
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BANGLADESH: Outspoken newspaper editor arrested in sign of
continued crackdown on dissent
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BELARUS: Director of human rights organisation “Platforma,”
Andrei Bondarenko, imprisoned
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CAMBODIA: Government announces plans to reintroduce
restrictive NGO Bill
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ETHIOPIA: Arrest of two independent journalists signals continued
crackdown on media
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INDONESIA: Authorities stifling freedom of expression in Papua
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IRAQ: Freedom of the press being muzzled
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KENYA: New NGO law will place unprecedented limitations on
foreign funding
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LIBYA: Nearly 50 killed and 500 injured during protests in Tripoli
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MALAYSIA: Arrest of 19 peaceful protestors emblematic of governments
growing intolerance of dissent
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THE PHILIPPINES: Elisa Lascoņa Tulid, female land reform activist and
civil society leader, murdered
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SOMALIA: Changes to draft media law still too repressive
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SYRIA: Human rights organizations call on Syrian government
to release activists and implement UN Resolution
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TURKEY: Human rights lawyer, Ramazan Demir, facing unwarranted judicial
persecution
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UAE: Continued harassment and intimidation of prominent human
rights lawyer Abdulhamid Al-Kumaiti
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VIETNAM: Activist receives 15 month suspended prison sentence for
critical Facebook comments
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Civil
Society Behind Bars
Nasiruddin
Elan, Bangladeshi activist, detained and at risk of torture
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Prominent Bangladeshi civil society activist, Adil Khan, released on
bail
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Interview with Civil Society Activists
Andrew Khoo, the
Co-Chairperson of Malaysian Bar Council's Human Rights Committee
(BCHRC), speaks to CIVICUS about the growing restrictions on civil
society and obstacles to realizing UPR recommendations in Malaysia
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In
June 2013, protesters took to the streets in Brazil to protest against
increases in the prices of bus tickets in the major cities. CIVICUS
speaks to Brazilian lawyer and activist Natasha Zadorosny
who provides an insider’s perspective into the protests and the
police’s response.
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DISCLAIMER
The
views
expressed in this bulletin are a reflection of those
contained in the original reports to which they are linked here, and
are not necessarily those of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation.
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