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
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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
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Egyptian court acquits human rights lawyer Azza Soliman in illegal protest case
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Cuban authorities release artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (El Sexto) after ten months without charge
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HighlightsCIVICUS makes numerous interventions including oral statements and side events at the 30th UN Human Rights Council session
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CIVICUS urges Kenya to stop harassment of civil society following government announcement to deregister over 900 NGOs
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CIVICUS raises serious concerns about Pakistan’s new INGO policy
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CIVICUS urges international community not to overlook the on-going
crackdown on Egyptian civil society despite the release of 100
activists
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CIVICUS and PLANOSCAM condemn politically motivated judicial harassment
of civil society members in Cameroon for organising democracy workshop
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CIVICUS urges release of wrongfully imprisoned Angolan activists
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BRAZIL: New anti-terror Bill threatens freedom of protest and social movements
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CAMEROON: Authorities urged to reveal whereabouts of journalist held in secret detention for three months
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CUBA: Peaceful protestors arbitrarily detained for attempting to approach Pope to highlights rights violations
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DRC: Members of National Intelligence Agency harass staff of human rights organisation
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INDONESIA: Activist exposing illegal sand mining assassinated
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ISRAEL: Parliament resumes work on the proposed “foreign agent” legislation
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KENYA: National Assembly passes bill to create offence of “scandalising Parliament” and to limit media coverage of MPs’ actions
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KAZAKHSTAN: Civil society independence and funding threatened by new bill
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Civic activists persecuted under vague charges
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MALAYSIA: Well respected cartoonist faces sedition charges for tweets
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MOROCCO: Human Rights Watch told to suspend its work in the country.
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MYANMAR: Student union leader arrested after spending months in hiding
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SYRIA: Detained freedom of expression activist moved to unknown location
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Civil
Society Behind Bars
Azerbaijan appeals court refers case of activists, Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunusov back to the trial court
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Bahraini activist Zainab Al Khwaja receives a one-year jail sentence and hefty fine for ripping king’s photograph in court
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Interview
with Civil Society Activists
As Uganda heads for the 2016
election, CIVICUS spoke to Orishaba Bagamuhunda Justus from the
National Foundation for Democracy and Human Rights in Uganda (NAFODU)
about the deteriorating state of human rights in his country.
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Mauritania’s human rights defenders are facing an uphill battle in
fighting slavery. CIVICUS spoke to Mamadou Moctar Sarr from the
National Forum for Human Rights Organisations about the situation.
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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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