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December 2012
Issue: 78


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Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID): Directory of Urgent Responses for Women Human Rights Defenders at Risk
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Committee to Protect Journalists: Number of Jailed Journalists Sets Global Record – Special Report
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European Commission: Delivering on Human Rights Defenders
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Freedom House: Policy Brief on Protecting Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
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Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Zimbabwe: Ongoing Risks for Human Rights Defenders in the Context of Political Deadlock and Pre-election Period
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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 and assembly.

 

MYANMAR: Licence of prominent human rights lawyer reissued
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Highlights

Make your voice heard in 2013! by Acting Secretary General Katsuji Imata
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CIVICUS calls for more transparency and less control in Bangladesh foreign donations bill
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CIVICUS speaks out against harsh prison sentences against Burkina Faso journalists
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CIVICUS highlights harassment of South African activist, Angy Peters
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CIVICUS urges end to crackdown on dissent in Sudan
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CIVICUS calls for release of Iranian activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh
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CIVICUS urges end to reprisals against Bahraini human rights defenders
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CIVICUS calls on the Sri Lankan government to stop persecution of civil society activists
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CIVICUS urges the Pakistani government to protect women human rights defenders and journalists
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Pharaonic powers and a struggling Egypt: Analysis piece by CIVICUS Policy and Advocacy Officer, Charlotte Allan
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Justice for Khayelitsha and Angy Peters: Analysis piece by CIVICUS Policy and Advocacy Officer, Charlotte Allan
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BELARUS: Leading human rights group, Viasna evicted from office
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CAMBODIA: Veteran activist Mam Sonando denied bail pending his appeal against sentencing
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CAMEROON: Environmental activists arrested and judicially harassed
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COLOMBIA: Afro – Colombian human rights defender, Miller Angulo Rivera assassinated
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CUBA: Detained human rights defender charged
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ISRAEL: Security forces seize property of Palestinian human rights groups
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KENYA: Call to investigate brutal attack on human rights defender seeking to expose corruption in government procurement process 
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KUWAIT: Bedoon community rights activists, Yousif Al-Zhairy and Khaled Al- Battah arrested
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LAOS: Director of Swiss NGO expelled for speaking out against restrictions on freedoms of association and expression
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LIBYA: National and international CSOs express concerns on new law to regulate pubic assemblies
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PHILIPPINES: Rights groups condemns arrests and judicial persecution of union organisers
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RUSSIA: Despondency as new law on Non-Commercial Organisations comes into force
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Draft anti-gay limiting freedom of expression and assembly scheduled to be read in Duma
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SINGAPORE: Activists charged for inciting ‘illegal strike’
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TURKEY: Rights group decries government as the world’s leading jailer of journalists
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ZIMBABWE: Women’s rights group, WOZA delivers complaint to police about unlawful assault on protestors
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Lewis Mwape, Programme Director of the Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) speaks to CIVICUS about the status of the 2009 Zambian NGO Act and the campaign to amend the law.
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