February -
March 2014
Issue: 88
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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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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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VIETNAM:
Sentence of human rights defender and blogger Dinh Dang Dinh suspended
on compassionate grounds
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Highlights
CIVICUS releases updated compendium of International Legal Instruments
and Other Intergovernmental Commitments Concerning Core Civil Society
Rights
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CIVICUS issues joint written statement on Civil Society Space to the UN
Human Rights Council
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CIVICUS joins Africa based groups in condemning Uganda
Anti-Homosexuality Bill as ‘profoundly un -African’
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CIVICUS and ZCSD urge Zambia’s development partners to support not
undermine civil society
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CIVCUS joins call against restrictive amendments to Azerbaijan NGO Act
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CIVICUS issues call for independent human rights monitoring in Eritrea
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CIVICUS joins GURT Centre in condemning conditional amnesty for
protestors in Ukraine
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CIVICUS and Freedom House urge attention to lack of civil society space
in Ethiopia in relation to the Extractive Industries and Transparency
Initiative
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Analysis piece by CIVICUS policy and advocacy officer, David Kode on
Bahrain’s silent revolution
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Analysis Piece by CIVICUS head of policy and research, Mandeep Tiwana
on threats to civil society and international Law
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BANGLADESH:
Staff of human rights group, Odhikar harassed
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CHINA: Activist Xu Zhiyong sentenced to four years imprisonment for
“gathering a crowd to disturb public order”
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KENYA: Activist challenging gender based violence targeted at home
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MALAYSIA: Human rights NGO coalition targeted for violating “religious
tenets”
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NIGERIA: Repressive anti-gay law passed undermining freedom of
association passed
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PHILIPPINES: Land and housing rights activist, Sixto Bagasala, Jr
assassinated
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RUSSIA: Concerns about safety of imprisoned environmental activist,
Evgeny Vitishko
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Eight protestors handed sentences after questionable trial
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RWANDA: UN Special Rapporteur urges lifting of restrictions on peaceful
assembly and association
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SUDAN: Concern for safety of activists detained incommunicado
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UGANDA: Anti-homosexuality law approved by President despite widespread
condemnation
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UKRAINE: Call to prosecute perpetrators responsible for deaths of
protestors
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VENEZUELA: Civil society groups issue call for observance of human
rights, justice and peace
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Civil
Society Behind Bars
SYRIA:
Second anniversary of Mazen Darwish's imprisonment marks further repression of human
rights defenders
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Interview
with Civil Society Activists
CIVICUS speaks to Mauricio
Alarcón-Salvador about threats to human rights activists and NGOs in
Ecuador. Mauricio is a lawyer and human rights defender who focuses on
citizen participation and the rights of people with disabilities. He is
the Programme Director of Fundamedios,
a position he has held since 2009. Fundamedios or the Andean Foundation
for the observation and study of the media is a civil society
organisation which works to defend and promote freedom of the press,
speech and association in Ecuador.
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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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