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Judicial harassment of writers and advocates has reached crisis point in Turkey. Mass raids have been carried out against government critics under the guise of catching individuals with suspected...
CIVICUS, the global civil society network, and the Ligue des Droits de la personne dans la région des Grandes Lacs (LDGL) warn about rising levels of harassment of civil society activists and...
Global civil society network, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation deplores Israel’s failure to participate in the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and urges the Government of...
Two senior journalists have been handed disproportionate sentences for “defamation” and their newspaper has been ordered to suspend its circulation for six months by the Ouagadougou High Court.
On behalf of the Committee, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people of South Africa, civil society organisations and members of the media who in their various ways made the...
According to national reports, over 300 persons were arbitrarily detained during anti-austerity protests held from June-July 2012 under the National Security Act, which permits prolonged detention...
Since 17 October 2012, Nasrin - who has defended human rights activists, prisoners of conscience and juveniles facing the death penalty - has been on a hunger strike in protest of the punitive...
On-going persecution of human rights defenders for engaging with Bahrain’s Universal Periodic Review was highlighted by UN Secretary General, Ban ki Moon in his August 2012 report, Cooperation...
Dear members and partners, Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is delighted to announce that it has appointed Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah as its...
Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation urges the Cambodian government to stop what appears to be an increasingly vicious campaign against civil society....
Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is shocked at the two year sentence handed out to members of the Russian band Pussy Riot by a Moscow Court.
"Members...
Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is shocked at the two year sentence handed out to members of the Russian band Pussy Riot by a Moscow Court.
"Members...
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation call for the Commonwealth to bring Swaziland under the scrutiny of the...