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🇵🇬 #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…
🇮🇳 #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…
🇧🇩 #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…
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…