September - October
2014
Issue: 92
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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
the Bulletin to friends and colleagues. We welcome your comments and
contributions!
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Arab NGO Network for Development releases Enabling Environment National Assessment on Lebanon
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Amnesty International releases report on Sweeping repression in the Oromia region of Ethiopia
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Forum Asia releases report on understanding the role of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in human rights
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Human Rights Watch releases new report on politically motivated imprisonment in Uzbekistan
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Increasing Reliance in Surveillance Society (IRISS) consortium releases
handbook on increasing resilience in surveillance societies
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UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai releases report to General Assembly on
the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the
context of multilateral institutions
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UPR Info releases report “Beyond Promises: The impact of the UPR on the ground”
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Voluntary Action Network India releases Enabling Environment National Assessment on India
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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
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TURKEY: Court lifts arrest warrant for Turkish activist Pınar Selek
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ZAMBIA: Government and NGOs make peace on NGO Act
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HighlightsCIVICUS is hosting its International Civil Society Week in Johannesburg from 19-25 November
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CIVICUS interventions at the 27th UN Human Rights Council Session
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CIVICUS and partners make submissions on Belarus, Honduras, Liberia,
Malawi, Maldives, and the USA to the UN Human Rights Council
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CIVICUS, EHAHRDP and EHRP condemn crackdown on dissent in Ethiopia as journalists convicted
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CIVICUS and CNIS call for Azerbaijan to end persecution of civil society and uphold Council of Europe Commitments
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CIVICUS urges Hong Kong authorities to respect the rights of peaceful demonstrators
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CIVICUS calls on Egypt to release activists
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CIVICUS statement on restrictions on civil society in Cambodia following joint mission to the country
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CIVICUS and over 40 organizations oppose amendments to weaken UN resolution on civil society space
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CIVICUS and CEPO express concern over South Sudan NGO Law amidst deepening crisis
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CIVICUS and more than 165 organisations call on King to release Bahraini activist Maryam Al-Khawaja
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CIVICUS condemns NGO crack-down in Hungary and calls on the European Commission to act
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CIVICUS calls on government of Bangladesh to drop charges against activists Adilur Khan
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Joint submission on Sri Lanka to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG)
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Analysis piece by CIVICUS’ Secretary General, 'Fighting for change: better from the boardroom or the street'
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Analysis piece by CIVICUS’ Secretary General on the need to ’Put People Power Back at Centre of Citizen Action’
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BAHRAIN: Nabeel Rajab and Zainab Al-Khawaja trials postponed
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BANGLADESH: Government must act to protect Women Human Rights Defenders in Chittagong Hill Tracts
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BOTSWANA: End use of archaic sedition law to curb freedom of expression
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ECUADOR: LGBTI defender at risk
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EGYPT: Egyptian Human Rights Organizations decide not to participate in Egypt’s UPR before the UN
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ETHIOPIA: UN experts urge Ethiopia to stop using anti-terrorism legislation to curb human rights
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HONDURAS: Harassment of LGBTI activists
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IRAN: Happy Video Youths Receive Suspended Flogging and Prison Sentences
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KENYA: Allow Rights Groups to Register
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KYRGYZSTAN: Supreme Court refuses to review the sentencing of Mr. Azimjan Askarov to life imprisonment
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LAOS: NGOs Say proposed guidelines would hamstring Lao civil society
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MALAYSIA: 112 NGOs band together to fight Sedition Act
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NIGERIA: Crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs to silence LGBT, human rights groups
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OMAN: Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai at the conclusion of his visit to the Sultanate of Oman
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PHILIPPINES: Death threats against human rights defender Mr. Benito E. Molino
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RUSSIA: Russian NGOs tagged as ‘foreign agents’
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SAUDI ARABIA: Systematic targeting of members of ACPRA and other human rights defenders
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SOMALIA: Government clampdown on independent media houses and freedom of expression
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SUDAN: Darfur Bar condemns closure of civil society centre in Sudan’s capital
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SYRIA: 78 organizations call on the Syrian government to release
imprisoned members of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of
Expression.
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THAILAND: Intimidation against lawyers and human rights organizations
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UAE: Trial of human rights defender Osama Al-Najjar continues
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VENEZUELA: Dangerous Inertia: End of street protests does not mean the end of Venezuela’s crisis
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Civil
Society Behind Bars
Prominent Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab arrested and charged
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Take action to free Indian activist Irom Sharmila
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Support the release of Emirati activist Osama Al-Najjar
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Interview
with Civil Society Activists
CIVICUS interviews Turgut Gambar about the persecution of human rights defenders in Azerbaijan
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CIVICUS speaks to Qamar Naseem about recent legislative restrictions on CSOs in Pakistan
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CIVICUS interviews Bangladeshi civil society activist and Secretary of Odhikar, Adilur Rahman Khan
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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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