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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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Laws of Attrition – Crackdown on Russia’s Civil
Society after Putin’s return to the Presidency
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EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROJECT: Report to the
African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 53rd session
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIVIL SOCIETY LAW NEWSLETTER
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REPORT OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY
AND ASSOCIATION
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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. |
Controversial revisions
to Bill on Mass Organisations deferred by Indonesian Parliament
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CIVICUS
and
Citizens’ Watch urge end to
targeting of CSOs in Russia
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International CSOs
speak out against
Ethiopian Supreme Court decision in Eskinder Nega case
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more
Archbishop Tutu
joins CIVICUS in demanding
justice for missing Laotian activist, Sombath Samphone
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more
CIVICUS and
Maldivian CSOs urge end to
harassment of civil society through threats of dissolution
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more
CIVICUS and
Indonesian CSOs urge Indonesian
Parliament to reject restrictive amendments to law on mass organisation
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more
Joint submission on CSO
Enabling
Environment to the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda
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more
Analysis piece by
CIVICUS Secretary General
Danny Sriskandarajah, ‘Africa’s liberators should embrace civil society
as an
ally’
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ALGERIA:
Civil Society groups being persecuted under new law on associations
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BAHRAIN: Government effectively cancels UN Special Rapporteur on
Torture’s proposed visit
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Health of imprisoned human rights defender Nabeel Rajab deteriorates as
he is denied medical assistance
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BANGLADESH: Excessive force leads to dozens of deaths of protestors
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Crackdown on bloggers and journalists underway
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BURUNDI: Senate passes restrictive amendments to the press law
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COLOMBIA: Leading investigative journalist subjected to murderous
attack
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EGYPT: Draft law on NGOs criticised for seeking to put an end to the
work of civil society
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ISRAEL: Prominent Palestinian human rights defender insulted and
harassed
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KYRGYZSTAN: Draft money laundering law aims to bring CSOs within its
ambit
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RUSSIA: Electoral monitoring group, Golos, becomes first victim of
controversial foreign agents law
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SAUDI ARABIA: Professor and founder of human rights CSO arbitrarily
detained
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SUDAN: Scores of political detainees remain imprisoned despite pledge
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SOUTH AFRICA: National Assembly passes ‘Secrecy Bill’ despite civil
society concerns
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SOUTH SUDAN: Concerns mount over rising harassment and detention of
journalists
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SYRIA: Concerns raised on continued enforced disappearance of human
rights defender, Omar Mohammed Mamoun Arnous
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Lawyer dies under torture while his colleagues remain under arbitrary
detention
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VENEZUELA: Government urged to respect freedoms of speech and assembly
as opposition protests erupt
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Sukhrobjon Ismoilov,
the founder and director of the Expert Working Group (EWG), speaks to
CIVICUS about ongoing restrictions on civil society in Uzbekistan and
the need for greater international support following Uzbekistan’s
recent examination under the UN Universal Period Review (UPR).
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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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