A flotilla of three passenger and three cargo ships departed off the coast of Cyprus on 30 May 2010 under United States, Greece, and Turkey flags carrying a combined 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian and reconstruction supplies along with over 600 passengers bound for Gaza.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 21 December 2010  -  CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation applauds the court order last Friday to free 43 health workers, but remains concerned that the immediate release of at least five of the health workers has been delayed due to the authorities' new claim of unrelated warrants against them.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 21 December 2010 -- CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation applauds the court order last Friday to free 43 health workers, but remains concerned that the immediate release of at least five of the health workers has been delayed due to the authorities' new claim of unrelated warrants against them.

21 December 2010.

For immediate release OSCE Summit Fails to Deliver: A Wasted Opportunity to Strengthen the Human Dimension (Astana, 2 December) In the face of acute human rights challenges in the OSCE region, the organisers of the Parallel OSCE Civil Society Conference lamented OSCE participating states' failure to take steps to strengthen implementation of the organisation’s Human Dimension commitments.

Johannesburg.

CIVICUS joins civil society groups from around the world in demanding the immediate release of Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah, an association of community-based Arab organisations based in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

6 September 2010.

Johannesburg.

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Johannesburg.

27 January 2009.

Johannesburg.

  World Leaders must act decisively before it's too late   Johannesburg.

12 August 2010.

Johannesburg.

13 July, 2010-- Johannesburg ---CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is concerned by recent reports that Uzbek officials are intensifying pressure against human rights defenders in response to the political upheaval and violence in neighboring Kyrgyzstan.

30 June 2010.

Johannesburg.

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Geneva.

Johannesburg.

Johannesburg.

19 April 2010, Johannesburg.

By Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General, CIVICUS     A few weeks ago I wrote of the semi-annual CIVICUS Board meeting and the key issues the Board would be deliberating.

  18 December 2009.

17 November 2009.

  08 October 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation expresses deepest condemnation at the killing of at least 157 protestors and the wounding of over a thousand people during a military crackdown upon a large scale public protest in Guinea on 28 September.

12 June 2009.

  13 May 2009 – CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has expressed concern over the detention of well-known civil society activists in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for commemorating the anniversary of the 2005 “Andijan Massacre”.

28 January 2009- Despite severe criticism from donors, civil society and foreign governments, on 6 January 2009, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a controversial law restricting the activities and funding for civil society organisations (CSOs).