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CIVICUS article: ‘We must step up the struggle for LGBTI rights’
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CIVICUS article: ‘Challenging exclusion: Why Civil Society Matters’
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CIVICUS releases the 2016 State of the Civil Society Report on the theme of ‘civil society and exclusion’
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CIVICUS Civil Society Watch Report uncovers restrictions on civil society freedoms in 109 countries in 2015
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Bahraini NGOs condemn travel ban on human rights defenders
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CIVICUS urges an investigation after police use live ammunition on student protestors in Papua New Guinea
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CIVICUS joins several CSOs in raising alarm on existential threats to civil society in Egypt
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CIVICUS urges the European Union to raise the treatment of human rights defenders with Ethiopian prime minister
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CIVICUS and over 200 CSOs call on the UN Human Rights Council to support resolution on civic space
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CIVICUS and partners make several statements at the UN Human Rights Council on Bahrain and Egypt, Burundi, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Somalia
ARGENTINA: Press freedom under threat as government gives amnesty to tax dodgers
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BAHRAIN: Human rights defender forced to flee country after lengthy detention
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Human rights defender hospitalised after 15 days in solitary confinement
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BANGLADESH: NGOs condemn declining free expression environment
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BRAZIL: Human rights defender working against dam constructions found murdered
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CAMBODIA: Bail denied for human rights defenders detained on ‘bribery and corruption’ charges
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CUBA: Human rights activist receives anonymous death threats on email and telephone
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EGYPT: Two journalists sentenced to death for ‘leaking state secrets’
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Woman human rights defender barred from travelling to feminist conference
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Assets of head of civil society organisation frozen in investigation on foreign funding of NGOs
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ERITREA: Journalist held for 15 years still not charged but government says he is alive
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GUATEMALA: Activist working to attain legal status for victims in land disputes murdered
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Radio host critical of local government assassinated
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Top member of workers union shot and killed in city in drive-by assassination
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HONDURAS: LGBTI activist and anti-violence campaigner who was missing now found murdered
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Civil society activists taking part in transparency initiatives harassed and intimidated
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Students occupy universities in protests demanding transparency on use of funds
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INDIA: Another NGO’s licence cancelled for using foreign funding
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Human rights lawyer’s organisation suspended for six months for violating foreign funding law
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NGOs put on government watch list unable to receive funding
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IRAN: Court upholds 19-year sentence against student human rights defender for ‘insult’
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JORDAN: State orders media not to report killing of intelligence officer
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KAZAKHSTAN: Activists arrested after land protests
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KENYA: Human rights lawyer who laid charge against police found dead
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Government bans protest against electoral commission
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KUWAIT: Human rights defender beaten by police as sentence reduced
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KYRGYZSTAN: Court dismisses slander case against human rights defenders
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LAOS: Crackdown on social media activists as “offenders” are publicly paraded
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MAURITANIA: Draft law threatens freedom of assembly and association
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MEXICO: Nine dead after police violently disperse teacher’s union strike
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MOROCCO: Journalists on trial for running training on citizen journalism
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NICARAGUA: Six environmental activists deported on charge of ‘handling explosives’
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NIGER: Social media activist sentenced to six months for Facebook comment
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‘Hostile’ journalist banned from covering news in the country
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OMAN: Court upholds three year jail term for online activist
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RUSSIA: President amends NGO law despite international protest
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Rights activist faces charges for not complying with foreign agents law
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Saudi Arabia: Eight-year prison sentence for human rights defender
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SOUTH KOREA: State asks for 8-year sentence against trade unionist for illegal rally
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SUDAN: Intelligence agent’s raid home of NGO director
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SYRIA: Second attempt to kill journalist and rights defender
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THAILAND: Human rights defenders charged for criminal defamation and computer crimes
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TURKEY: Journalists, activists jailed for taking part in solidarity march
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Human rights lawyers further remanded in custody
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Journalist reporting on human trafficking found murdered
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VENEZUELA: Journalists attacked, equipment stolen and police delete footage in protest
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Venezuelan Supreme Court bans media from publishing lynching videos because they create “anxiety”
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ZAMBIA: Closure of biggest daily independent newspaper a worry for freedom of expression
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East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project: Exiled in Limbo: Support Mechanisms for Human Rights Defenders in Exile in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda

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Global Witness: On Dangerous Ground

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Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Kyrgyzstan: At a Crossroads: Shrink or Widen the Scene for Human Rights Defenders

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society

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International Partnership for Human Rights: Briefing paper, Key Trends in the Protection of Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan

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Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression on the topic of ‘freedom of expression, states and the private sector in the digital age’

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ANGOLA: Court orders conditional release of 17 activists
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BURKINA FASO: African Court awards journalist financial damages in first ruling on freedom of expression
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GHANA: Human rights court fines two people for 2014 assault of journalists
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HONDURAS: Activists set free after failed case of illegal demonstration and property destruction
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HONG KONG: Four activists acquitted over 2014 charge of obstructing police during a protest
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KENYA: Court protects Human Rights Commission from deregistration and asset freeze
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SUDAN: Arrested students who protested university relocation released
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SOMALILAND: Human Rights lawyer’s license to practise reinstated
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CIVICUS speaks to Phyllis Omido, a Kenyan grassroots environmental activist about the challenges faced by activists for environmental rights in the country.
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CIVICUS speaks to Diana Vegas, the vice-president of Sinergia, a Venezuelan organisation that aims at expanding spaces for citizen participation, providing a space for civil society articulation and strengthening civil society.
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CIVICUS speaks to Camila Rojas, a public administration student and the president of the biggest student federation in Chile, that of the University of Chile, about the environment for activism and the reasons why protests usually turn violent and are repressed in the country
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CIVICUS speaks to Lae-goon Park, director general of Human Rights Center and a steering committee member of Coalition 4.16 on the Sewol Ferry Disaster, about the environment for civil society and the on-going mass protest movement in South Korea.
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In light of the recent crackdown on students protesting peacefully in Sudan, attacks on civil society organisations and judicial persecution of human rights defenders, CIVICUS speaks to a Sudanese human rights defender, who asked to remain anonymous, to shed light on the challenging environment in which civil society operates.
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In this anonymous interview with CIVICUS, a Tunisian activist who works for an LGBTI organisation speaks about the conditions for LGBT activists and organisations in Tunisia.
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Editors: Mandeep Tiwana | Teldah Mawarire

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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.