March - April 2013
Issue: 80
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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
and assembly.
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BELARUS: Charges against journalist for libelling
President dropped
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ETHIOPIA: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls for release of
imprisoned blogger Eskinder Nega
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Highlights
CIVICUS organises events on threats to civil society in
Russia, Eurasia and Bahrain at the UN Human Rights Council
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more
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CIVICUS celebrates UN resolution on protection of human
rights defenders
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CIVICUS warns about increasingly hostile environment for activists in
Azerbaijan
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more
CIVICUS speaks out against suppression of Ethiopian media and civil
society
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more
CIVICUS calls for end to judicial persecution of civil society and
media in Turkey
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more
CIVICUS condemns escalating campaign against democratic dissent in
Zambia
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more
CIVICUS calls for cessation of rising harassment of civil society in
Burundi
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CIVICUS urges Sri
Lanka and The
Republic of Korea to reconsider human rights recommendations
CIVICUS makes UPR submissions highlighting threats to civil society in
the Central
African Republic, China,
Jordan,
Mexico,
Malaysia
and Nigeria.
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ALGERIA: Civil society condemns waves of repression against labour
activists
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BANGLADESH: Government urged to take measures to prevent protest deaths
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BRAZIL: Inter-American Commission Special Rapporteur calls for proper
inquiry into death of journalist investigating police misconduct
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CAMBODIA: Supreme Court refuses bail to land rights activist
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CAMEROON: Death threats issued to human rights lawyers defending gay
clients
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CHINA: Government urged to relent on internet censorship with change in
leadership
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EGYPT: UN Special Rapporteurs condemn NGO bill
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GAUTEMALA: Trade unionists and human rights defenders at risk
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OMAN: Arrested activists denied due process
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PAKISTAN: Respected social activist assassinated
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QATAR: Poet critical of royal family sentenced to fifteen years
imprisonment on appeal
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RUSSIA: Civil society groups condemn mass raids on NGOs
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SAUDI ARABIA: Human rights defenders given heavy sentences after
questionable trial
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SOMALIA: Women’s rights reporter becomes third journalist to be killed
in the country this year
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SUDAN: Crackdown against Nuba women’s rights activists
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: News blackout imposed on trial of 94 activists
charged with national security offences
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VIETNAM: Buddhist under threat for questioning official policies on
freedom of religion
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Longgena Ginting, Country Director of Greenpeace
Indonesia speaks to CIVICUS about Indonesia’s Mass Organisations Bill
and the threat it poses to Civil Society
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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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