PANAMA: Indigenous people’s rights activists detained over protests opposing hydro-project Read more
RUSSIA: Justice Ministry says criticising “foreign agents” law should be punished Read more
NGO activist interrogated for failing to comply with “foreign agents” law Read more
RWANDA: Prominent human rights defender expelled from country Read more
SAUDI ARABIA: Human rights defender sentenced to nine years in prison, and nine year travel ban Read more
SOMALIA: In unprecedented move, minister revokes human rights lawyer’s licence Read more
SOUTH KOREA: Labour activists face continuing judicial harassment Read more
SUDAN: Government says top United Nations envoy must leave the country Read more
Eight employees of NGO held by intelligence agents, criminal charges pressed Read more
Fear for safety of student activists held incommunicado by state intelligence body Read more
THAILAND: Human rights lawyer faces judicial harassment Read more
TURKEY: Two journalists sentenced to five years for revealing state secrets Read more
UGANDA: Security guard at human rights CSO suffocated, documents stolen in suspicious burglary Read more
UKRAINE: 17 Russian journalists banned from entering country Read more
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: CSOs call for the release of activist jailed for social media posts Read more
VENEZUELA: Police attack human rights defender with pellets and stones at protest Read more
VIETNAM: Activists arrested, barred from leaving homes ahead of President Obama’s visit Read more
Joint Civil Society Paper: Strengthening the Human Rights Council at 10 Read more
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: Analysis of South Sudan’s
Non-Governmental Organizations Act, 2016 and Relief and Rehabilitation
Commission Act, 2016 Download here
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: Global Trends in NGO Law Download here
International Federation of Journalists: Survey on digital security in South Asia’s media Download here
Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition: Situation Report 2015 Download here
ANGOLA: Activist Marcos Mavungo acquitted by Supreme Court Read more
AZERBAIJAN: Journalist jailed since 2014 released on suspended sentence Read more
IRAN: Cartoonist freed after sentence on charge of undermining the state Read more
MAURITANIA: Two anti-slavery activists released after 20 months incarceration Read more
NIGERIA: Senate throws out Social Media Bill Read more
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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