“Germany is violating international human rights standards, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly through the banning of protests, arresting and harassing of protesters, silencing of activists, shutting down of organisations.” - Civic Forum report

#PapuaNewGuinea is failing to meet its guarantees of human rights and civic freedoms, an international alliance of civil society groups CIVICUS warns. #PNG
rnz.co.nz/international/…

🇵🇬 #PapuaNewGuinea : New brief, highlights the slow progress on reforms by govt to protect #civicspace as well as efforts to stifle the media & freedom of expression.

These actions are inconsistent with #PNG 's commitments to UN Human Rights Council web.civicus.org/PNGResearchBri…

Youth, who blocked Rustaveli today, announced that the protest against the foreign agents draft law will resume at 19:00 tomorrow outside the parliament.

🇮🇳🪧From student rallies to farmer marches, #India ’s protests have been met with excessive force and legal constraints. The movements for justice persist despite the crackdowns.

New report as #India Elections begin: web.civicus.org/IndiaResearchB…

🇮🇳Once a beacon of democratic values, #India has seen a decline in civic freedoms.

Civil society groups face an array of restrictions. Our report details cancellations, raids, arrests, surveillance, and legal persecution:

🔗web.civicus.org/IndiaResearchB…

🇮🇳 #India will hold the world’s largest national election starting from 19 April to choose its Prime Minister and fill 543 seats in lower House of Parliament | #India Elections

Our new report looks at the state of civic and democratic freedoms: web.civicus.org/IndiaResearchB…

🇮🇳 #India : New report, ahead of the upcoming #India Elections, highlights a sustained pattern of repression by Prime Minister #Modi , in his second term, to undermine #democracy and civic freedoms and to silence dissent & target #civilsociety

More here: web.civicus.org/IndiaResearchB…

🇸🇾 #Syria : In February, women's rights activist, Heba Suhaib Haj Arif was murdered in her home.

She was a member of the Syrian Women’s Network, and previously worked as a member of the Local Council of Bazaa: web.civicus.org/SyriaMarch2024

A group of students started march from Tbilisi State University to join protest against foreign agent draft law outside the parliament. Half of rustaveli is now blocked.

🇧🇩 #Bangladesh : Criminalisation of #activists and crackdown on #protests by the opposition & workers continue following one-sided #elections

New #civicspace update here: web.civicus.org/BangladeshApri…

🇬🇪 #Georgia : Demonstrators have again taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi to demand the government drop controversial plans to brand civil society groups “foreign agents.” Gabriel Gavin with the story for POLITICOEurope: politico.eu/article/protes…

📣 NEW RESEARCH ALERT:

For the past few months, European Civic Forum has been documenting undue restrictions on the 🪧right to protest & expression of those standing in solidarity with 🇵🇸 #Palestine .

Read our +20 page analysis & our joint press statement below 👇🏾

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🇸🇬 #Singapore : The state of #civicspace remains 'repressed'. In recent months, the authorities investigated pro-Palestinian gatherings, harassed anti-death penalty #activists and targeted an opposition leader

More here: web.civicus.org/SingaporeApr20…

🪧🇵🇸Over the past six months, solidarity protests with Palestinian people have been banned in at least 12 #EU countries.

New research from European Civic Forum on the scope & scale of the restrictions: web.civicus.org/ECFReport

NEW: Six months on from 7 October, we're calling on the European Commission to urgently address ongoing restrictions against those expressing solidarity with #Palestine in Europe.

Read our joint statement 👉 civic-forum.eu/press/solidari…

Kyrgyzstan: Kaktus Media fact-check shows that President Japarov used incorrect & misleading arguments to explain why he signed the draconian ''foreign representative'' NGO law: kaktus.media/doc/498649_sad… CIVICUS Monitor

Revealed: Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest, decisions on which slogans are illegal in Berlin are made with the special task force 'BAO Nahost,' criminal police set to investigate 'left wing & foreign ideologies.'

me for Al Jazeera English
aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/…

🇱🇹 #Lithuania : Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff to the recently killed Alexei Navalny, was attacked with a hammer outside his home in Vilnius.

Latest country update: web.civicus.org/LithuaniaMarch…

🇲🇾 #Malaysia : Restrictions on freedom of expression & peaceful assembly escalating, despite international scrutiny at the UN Human Rights Council

More here: web.civicus.org/MalaysiaMarch2…