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21 May 2013
                       
 
 
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07 Mar 2013
 
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, calls for an end to Turkish state repression (07/03/2013)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
19 Feb 2013
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, calls on Burundian government to stop harassing civil society and media (19/02/2013)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
31 Jan 2013
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, urges Israel to cooperate with the UN Universal Periodic Review (31/01/2013)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
05 Dec 2012
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, harsh prison sentences for Journalists undermine Freedom of Expression in Burkina Faso (05/12/2012)
STATEMENT
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.
 
 
27 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by Raseriti Tau, Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of State Information Bill, on completion of the processing of the Protection of State Information Bill (27/11/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, condemns the Government of Sudan’s unabated crackdown on peaceful dissent (27/11/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
26 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by Civicus, global civil society network, calls on the Government of Iran to immediately and unconditionally release Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh (26/11/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
23 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by Civicus, global civil society network, calling for reprisals against Bahraini human rights defenders to end (23/11/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
17 Sep 2012
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, a global civil society network, announces new leader (17/09/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
24 Aug 2012
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, calling for unconditional release of detained activists (24/08/2012)
STATEMENT
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....
 
 
20 Aug 2012
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, denouncing Pussy Riot verdict (20/08/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, denouncing Pussy Riot verdict (20/08/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
16 Aug 2012
 
SA: Statement by CIVICUS, civil society network, calling for Commonwealth to act on Swaziland (16/08/2012)
STATEMENT
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...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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