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CIVICUS launches its Monitor, a ground-breaking tool to track global civic space conditions
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CIVICUS joins joint appeal for release of Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab
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CIVICUS raises concern on deteriorating human rights situation in Syria
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CIVICUS and partners make 11 UPR submissions covering 4 continents to the UN Human Rights Council on freedom of expression, association and assembly
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CIVICUS and African CSOs write open letter to the DRC President to stop using excessive force on protestors
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CIVICUS article on the philosophy and mechanics of the CIVICUS Monitor
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AZERBAIJAN: Protestor gets ten-year sentence for writing anti-government graffiti
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BANGLADESH: Parliament passes restrictive CSO international funding law
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BELARUS: Freedom of expression and media still being violated
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BENIN: Government bans all student associations and unions
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BRAZIL: Environmental defender shot and killed
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Police teargas protestors against budget plan
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BURUNDI: Five NGOs critical of government banned
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Worsening environment for press as journalists union is closed
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CAMBODIA: Three protestors beaten and injured by police during peaceful march for World Habitat Day
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CHINA: Monk beaten for staging solo protest calling for freedom of Tibet
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CUBA: State security agents target journalists who cooperate with freedom of expression institute
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Journalists arrested for not having permits while reporting on effects of hurricane
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COLOMBIA: Land rights defender assassinated by unknown assailants
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Repressive Bill a threat to civil society
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ECUADOR: Privacy and personal data Bill could limit freedom of expression
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EGYPT: Cabinet approves draft NGO Bill that will further shrink civic space
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Reporters conducting street interviews detained
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ETHIOPIA: Human rights blogger detained, computer confiscated
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Social media posts banned under state of emergency
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State of emergency situation silences aid workers
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Magazine suspends publication due to state restrictions under state of emergency
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GEORGIA: Attempted murder of transgender activist
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GREECE: Activists for rights of minorities harassed and intimidated
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HUNGARY: Biggest oppositional newspaper shut down
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HONDURAS: Prominent activist who was under police protection killed
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INDIA: Newspaper banned after government says it is a threat to the “public tranquility”
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Authorities set to amend rules on international funding of CSOs
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IRAN: 10-Year sentence confirmed for prominent rights defender
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Human rights activist jailed and starts six-year jail term for writing story on stoning
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INDONESIA: Activists say the new cyber bullying Bill is being used to target them
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IVORY COAST: Police violently disperse protestors rejecting new Constitution
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KAZAKHSTAN: Procedural violations at trial of human rights defenders
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KENYA: Home of prominent human rights defender broken into following social media threats
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KUWAIT: Three month jail sentence upheld for activist who held ‘illegal’ protest
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UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai submits legal analysis for case of protestor on trial
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LEBANON: Human rights activists suffers assassination attempt after presenting at UN
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MALAYSIA: Cartoonist banned from traveling after criticising judiciary
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MALAWI: Activist arrested despite protest having been cleared by authorities
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MONTENEGRO: Social media blocked on polling day
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NIGERIA: Accountability CSO broken into, threatening note left in office
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OMAN: Writer sentenced to three years in jail for “inciting protest”
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Newspaper closes down after multiple violations against the press
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PAKISTAN: Leading journalist barred from leaving country after writing report on military
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PERU: Police kill protestor during demonstrations against miner
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PHILIPPINES: Police arrest and injure protestors at indigenous peoples protest
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SOMALIA: Editor arrested, newspaper closed
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Intelligence agencies detain journalist
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SOUTH AFRICA: Police shoot student movement leader in protests demanding free education
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SOUTH SUDAN: Journalist abducted and severely tortured
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SUDAN: Judicial harassment continues against detained human rights defenders
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10 000 copies of newspaper confiscated for unfavourable reporting
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SYRIA: NGOs renew calls for release of human rights lawyer four years after disappearance
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THAILAND: Pro-democracy activist detained and deported
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Continued judicial harassment against human rights lawyer
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TURKEY: Government closes down TV channel for “spreading terrorist propaganda”
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RUSSIA: Human rights group Memorial named as a “foreign agent”
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Court upholds ban of CSO that refused to register as a foreign agent
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UGANDA: CSOs petition police over inaction on office break-ins
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Attempt to hack phone of human rights defender
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Journalists face prison sentence for filming documentary on environmental activists
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VENEZUELA: Journalists targeted in mass anti-government protests
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VIETNAM: Activists attending workshop beaten and interrogated
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ZIMBABWE: Police ban on protests upheld by High Court
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Arabic Network for Human Rights Information: Operation Decisive Storm Strikes Freedom of Expression in Yemen & the Gulf
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CIVICUS: CIVICUS Monitor Findings Report
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Civil Society Europe and CIVICUS: Civic Space in Europe Survey
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Gulf Centre for Human Rights: Before It’s Too Late: Tangible Protection Mechanism for Women Human Rights Defenders in the Middle East and North Africa
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Gulf Centre for Human Rights: Let Them Speak: Media and Freedom of Expression Targeted in Yemen
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Heinrich B�ll Foundation: Under Pressure: Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Africa
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Human Rights Watch: Harassed, Imprisoned, Exiled: Azerbaijan’s Continuing Crackdown on Government Critics, Lawyers and Civil Society
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Oxfam: The Risks of Defending Human Rights. The Rising Tide of Attacks Against Human Rights Activists in Latin America
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Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms: Social Media, A New Venue to Censor and Prosecute Journalists
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United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai: The Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association in the Workplace
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United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye: Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
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United Nations Special Rapporteur Michel Forst: They Spoke Truth to Power and Were Murdered: Analysis on the Situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders
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ARMENIA: NGOs welcome amendments to law that will relax conditions for NGOs
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BOTSWANA: LGBTI group undertakes more open activities following new registration
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COSTA RICA: Newspaper wins free expression court case against bank
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EGYPT: Human rights and labour lawyer released from pre-trial detention but charges remain
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GERMANY: Prosecutors drop case against comedian who made joke about Turkish president
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RUSSIA: LGBTI activist wins appeal to unblock online page
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UN makes high level appointment to deal with reprisals against NGOs who corporate with the UN
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CIVICUS speaks to a civil society activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the political crisis there and the violent police response to protests.
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CIVICUS interviews a South Sudanese civil society leader about why human rights defenders were threatened and prevented from travelling to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
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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.