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November - December  2014
Issue: 93



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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The Committee to Protect Journalists releases annual prison census
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East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project: “For us silence is not an option, Human Rights Defenders and the South Sudan Civil War”
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OHCHR: A practical guide: Civil society space and the international human rights system
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Joint report: Disrespect for European values in Hungary 2010-2014
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International Service for Human Rights: From restriction to protection: Report on ensuring a safe and enabling legal environment for human rights defenders
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Protection International: Public polices for the protection of human rights defenders
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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


CAMBODIA: Controversial Cybercrime Law ‘Scrapped’
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BAHRAIN AND SYRIA: Jdea Nawfal from Syria and Ghada Jamsheer from Bahrain Released
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CIVICUS welcomes emphasis on civic freedoms in UN Secretary General’s report on the post 2015 agenda
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CIVICUS condemns systematic attacks against land and indigenous people’s rights activists in the Philippines
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CIVICUS and IRG contribute to FACTS Report: “Stories of innovative democracy at local level: enhancing participation, activism and social change across the world”
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CIVICUS condemns draconian sentencing of two Bahraini activists
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CIVICUS urges Turkish government to withdraw restrictive security bill
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ANGOLA: 17 NGOs ask for the end of legal actions in Angola against journalist and activist Rafael Marques
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AZERBAIJAN: 12 months of paralysing attacks on civil society
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BANGLADESH: Civil society urges dropping of restrictions on foreign funding for NGOs
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CAMBODIA: Civil society groups condemn arrest and detention of the Boeung Kak Lake Seven
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EGYPT: Thousands gather in Tahrir Square to protest decision to drop charges against former President Mubarak
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HONDURAS: Call to strengthen and enact draft law on the protection of human rights defenders
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HONG KONG: Authorities arrest 86 as protest site cleared
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INDIA: Human rights defender Azimuddin Sarkar detained and severely beaten in custody
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JAPAN: Controversial secrets law takes effect amid protests
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KAZAKHSTAN: Government falls silent on NGO law
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KENYA: Restrictive foreign funding bill threatens to throttle civil society sector
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KENYA:  15 NGOs Deregistered on suspicion of funding terrorism
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KYRGYZSTAN: Russian-Style “Foreign Agents” bill being debated
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MACEDONIA: Concern regarding the situation of the LGBTI Community
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OMAN: Travel ban imposed on human rights defender Saed Jadad
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RUSSIA: 148 NGOs slam ‘foreign agents’ law in open letter to President Putin
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SAUDI ARABIA: Human rights defender Samar Badawi banned from travel prior to EU meeting
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SPAIN:  Immigration law amendment will violate rights
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SPAIN: Demonstrations mark passing of anti-protest security law
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TAJIKISTAN: Call to drop draft legislation restricting NGO access to funding
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THAILAND: Free speech crackdown creating ‘spiral into silence’
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TUNISIA: Call to protect civil society rights following successful elections
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TURKEY: The new domestic Security Bill and its potential implications for LGBTI individuals
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TURKEY: EU condemns police raids and arrests of media representatives
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UGANDA:  Uganda lawmakers draft new anti-gay bill
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U.K.: New Anti-Terror law rolls back rights
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USA: Worrying concerns over outcome of Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases
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VIETNAM: Conviction of three human rights defenders upheld
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Civil Society Behind Bars

Ethiopia: Prosecutor presents amended Charge in Zone9 Case
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Bahrain: Provisional release of human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab
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World Movement for Democracy produces video in support of the Civil Society Behind Bars Campaign
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Interview  with Civil Society Activists

The Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Innovation Awards stewarded by CIVICUS celebrated 10 years of their existence in November 2014. CIVICUS interviewed recipients of this year’s awards, Jamaican youth activist, Jerome Cowans, Indian social activist, Sunitha Krishnan and members of Project Pink Blue in Nigeria.
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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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