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
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Brutality Unpunished and Unchecked: Egypt’s
Military Kill and Torture Protestors with Impunity
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INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: Colombia: Peace at Last?
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UNITED NATIONS: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the violations of
the rights of Indigenous Peoples
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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
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ETHIOPIA: Swedish journalists released after spending 14 months in
prison
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Highlights
CIVICUS highlights restrictions on civil society in Bahrain and Russia
at the UN Human Rights Council
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CIVICUS makes Universal Periodic Review Submissions on Burkina Faso,
Colombia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
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CIVICUS makes Universal Periodic Review Submissions on Bangladesh and Russia
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Joint submission to UN UPR on Azerbaijan
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Joint CSO letter to Prime Minister Haile Mariam Desalgn of Ethiopia
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CIVICUS supports petition urging Venezuela to stop
denouncing the American Convention on Human Rights
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Open Letter from imprisoned Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab’s family to
the CIVICUS World Assembly
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Statement by imprisoned Palestinian activist Ameer Makhoul’s wife to
the CIVICUS World Assembly
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Enduring Love: Blog post by CIVICUS Policy and Advocacy Officer,
Charlotte Allan
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AZERBAIJAN: Human rights
defender, Ilham Amiraslanov, sentenced to two years imprisonment
through questionable trial
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BAHRAIN: Courts continue to persecute human rights defenders Nabeel
Rajab and Zainab Al-Khwaja
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CAMBODIA: Veteran activist and government critic Mam Sonando sentenced
to 20 years in prison
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COLOMBIA: Campaign focusing on six human rights defenders launched
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HONDURAS: Human rights lawyer, Antonio Trejo Cabrera, assassinated
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INDIA: Anti-nuclear power plant protest brutally suppressed
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IRAN: Five-year sentence for human rights defender Kouhyar Goudarzi
upheld
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PHILIPPINES: Civil society up in arms against cyber-crime law as a
violation of freedom of expression
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RUSSIA: Concerns about negative fallout on civil society through USAID
shutdown
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SYRIA: Concerns about arrest and possible enforced disappearance of
human rights lawyer Khalil Maatouk
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TURKEY: 69 trade union activists to stand trial on ‘terrorism’ charges
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Human rights defender and government critic
assaulted
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RUSSIA: NGO Law will
inevitably result in a contraction of space and opportunity for NGOs:
An interview with Boris Pustyntsev, Director of the Russia-based
Citizens' Watch
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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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