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CIVICUS and near 200 CSOs write to South African President Jacob Zuma to take action on the case of murdered activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe
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CIVICUS welcomes censure of Azerbaijan by the Open Government Partnership
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CIVICUS and partners urge the Ethiopian government to end use of terrorism law to persecute dissenters
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CIVICUS raises alarm over the state of emergency in Venezuela
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CIVICUS and partners appeal to the Swiss government to address rights violations in Bahrain during king’s state visit
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BAHRAIN: Police teargas protestors demanding end to political reprisals
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Court increases jail sentence for opposition leader for peaceful speeches
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BANGLADESH: Human rights organisation bears brunt of judicial harassment
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BOLIVIA: Police clash with labour union over closure of biggest textile company
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CAMBODIA: Government official threatens to shut down NGOs using controversial law
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Government cracks down on ‘Black Monday’ protestors and online activities
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CHILE: Police arrest 117 students for holding unauthorised march
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CHINA: Detained lawyers denied access to legal representation
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COLOMBIA: Journalists investigating case of missing journalist go missing
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COTE D’IVOIRE: Journalist’s laptop stolen in break-in, other valuables left
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EGYPT: UN experts say crackdown on protests is worsening
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Prominent human rights defender seized in dawn raid
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Travel ban for human rights defender
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Prison sentences handed down to more than 150 protestors in one month
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Journalist sentenced to death in absentia for alleged espionage
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GHANA: Police say they may consider banning social media on poll day
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GREECE: Independent media banned from covering eviction of refugees
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INDIA: Unknown gunmen shoot dead two journalists in separate incidents
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IRAN: Women’s rights activist sentenced to 16 years in prison
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Government orders apps to store messages on local servers
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KENYA: Three protestors killed in marches demanding reform of electoral commission
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KAZAKHSTAN: Police use excessive force on protestors against land reform proposals
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KYRGYZSTAN: NGO Bill rejected by parliament
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KUWAIT: Court upholds sentence and deportation order for detained human rights defender
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LEBANON: Human rights lawyer arrested for Facebook posts lambasting corruption
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MALAYSIA: CSOs express concerns about amendments to Communications Act
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Government official says critics could face three year travel ban
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MEXICO: Police repress teacher’s strike over education reform law
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Journalist known for law and order reporting killed by gunshot to head
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MYANMAR: Proposed assembly law an improvement but falls short on free speech
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NEPAL: Journalist taking photos of protest arrested
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District authorities threaten to expel ‘wayward’ NGOs for not registering
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OMAN: Jailed prominent human rights defender denied medical treatment
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PAKISTAN: Transgender activist dies after six gunshots by unknown assailants
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Labour activist threatened at gunpoint
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PANAMA: Indigenous people’s rights activists detained over protests opposing hydro-project
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RUSSIA: Justice Ministry says criticising “foreign agents” law should be punished
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NGO activist interrogated for failing to comply with “foreign agents” law
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RWANDA: Prominent human rights defender expelled from country
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SAUDI ARABIA: Human rights defender sentenced to nine years in prison, and nine year travel ban
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SOMALIA: In unprecedented move, minister revokes human rights lawyer’s licence
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SOUTH KOREA: Labour activists face continuing judicial harassment
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SUDAN: Government says top United Nations envoy must leave the country
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Eight employees of NGO held by intelligence agents, criminal charges pressed
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Fear for safety of student activists held incommunicado by state intelligence body
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THAILAND: Human rights lawyer faces judicial harassment
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TURKEY: Two journalists sentenced to five years for revealing state secrets
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UGANDA: Security guard at human rights CSO suffocated, documents stolen in suspicious burglary
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UKRAINE: 17 Russian journalists banned from entering country
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: CSOs call for the release of activist jailed for social media posts
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VENEZUELA: Police attack human rights defender with pellets and stones at protest
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VIETNAM: Activists arrested, barred from leaving homes ahead of President Obama’s visit
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Joint Civil Society Paper: Strengthening the Human Rights Council at 10
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International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: Analysis of South Sudan’s Non-Governmental Organizations Act, 2016 and Relief and Rehabilitation Commission Act, 2016
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International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: Global Trends in NGO Law
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International Federation of Journalists: Survey on digital security in South Asia’s media
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Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition: Situation Report 2015
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ANGOLA: Activist Marcos Mavungo acquitted by Supreme Court
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AZERBAIJAN: Journalist jailed since 2014 released on suspended sentence
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IRAN: Cartoonist freed after sentence on charge of undermining the state
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MAURITANIA: Two anti-slavery activists released after 20 months incarceration
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NIGERIA: Senate throws out Social Media Bill
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CIVICUS speaks to Thulani Rudolf Maseko, a human rights defender and founding member of the Lawyers for Human Rights, Swaziland about persistent civic space challenges in the Kingdom of Swaziland and his experiences as a victim of the actions of the monarchy.

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Dinara Oshurahunova, of the NGO Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, tell CIVICUS of the recently failed attempts in Kyrgyzstan to pass a foreign agents law.

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Fernando Bracaccini a lawyer and coordinator at the Civil Association for Equality and Justice, a non-profit organisation, speaks to CIVICUS on the environment for civil society organisations in Argentina.

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In this anonymous interview with CIVICUS, a human rights defender working for a civil society organisation in China details what China’s new NGO Law means and its likely impact on NGOs.

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Vice-President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Penelope Faulkner speaks to CIVICUS about the challenges faced by civil society in the country.

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Editors: Mandeep Tiwana | Teldah Mawarire

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