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Vendredi 4th of janvier 2013

Pakistan NGOs Forum strongly condemns the brutal killings of innocent workers of NGO in Swabi

Rapporté par: 
Prof. Mohammad Ismail
Organisation/Company: 
Pakistan NGOs Forum

 Wednesday, January 02, 2013Six women among seven NGO workers gunned down in SWABI: Unidentified gunmen shot dead six women and a male medical technician working for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) near the Anbar Interchange on the Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway on Tuesday.Sources said the armed men opened fire on the van (LE-1094) taking the workers home after performing duty at a Community Centre, killing six women and the technician on the spot.The driver of the vehicle sustained injuries while four-year-old Ahsan, son of one of the women, miraculously escaped unhurt in the attac

Type: Menace
Lundi 31st of décembre 2012

Security in Sudan attacks Civil Society Organizations

Rapporté par: 
Abdel-Rahman El Mahdi
Organisation/Company: 
Sudanese Development Initiative

Al-Khatim Adlan Center for Enlightenment is a non-overnmental organization reigestered and working in Sudan. Today, December 31, 2012, security forces and officials from the regulatory body the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) ordered the Centre to be closed down and have confiscated all the assets of the organization. This is the second NGO to be closed down in less than a month and a few others are also being threatened with closure. 

Type: Menace

Security in Sudan attacks Civil Society Organizations

Rapporté par: 
Abdel-Rahman El Mahdi
Organisation/Company: 
Sudanese Development Initiative

Al-Khatim Adlan Center for Enlightenment is a non-overnmental organization reigestered and working in Sudan. Today, December 31, 2012, security forces and officials from the regulatory body the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) ordered the Centre to be closed down and have confiscated all the assets of the organization. This is the second NGO to be closed down in less than a month and a few others are also being threatened with closure. 

Type: Menace
Mardi 20th of novembre 2012

CIVICUS Letter to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

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Rapporté par: 
Akashni Pillay
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

To:
Margaret Sekaggya
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office

17 October 2012

Dear Ms. Sekaggya,

I write to you from CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, an international alliance of civil society with members and partners in over a hundred countries. CIVICUS supports citizen’s rights and democratic freedoms across the globe, including the freedoms of expression, association and assembly.

Type: Menace
Lundi 20th of août 2012

CIVICUS denounces pussy riot verdict

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
civicus

Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is shocked at the two year sentence handed out to members of Russian band Pussy Riot by a Moscow Court.

“Members of the band have clearly been victimised in what appears to be a blatant attack on free speech,” says Netsanet Belay, Policy and Research Director of CIVICUS. “The way in which the band members have been treated is designed to send a chilling message that democratic dissent is not welcome in Russia.”

Type: Menace
Mercredi 15th of août 2012

Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
civicus

Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Committee to Protect Journalists, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, Legal and Human Rights Centre, Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania, are concerned about reports that, on Monday 30 July, the government of Tanzania indefinitely banned MwanaHalisi, a weekly Kiswahili newspaper.

Type: Menace

Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
civicus

Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Committee to Protect Journalists, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, Legal and Human Rights Centre, Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania, are concerned about reports that, on Monday 30 July, the government of Tanzania indefinitely banned MwanaHalisi, a weekly Kiswahili newspaper.

Type: Menace
Mardi 14th of août 2012

Moves to stifle civil society in Russia demand strong international action

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

8 August 2012 - Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation condemns the recent surge in restrictions on civil society in Russia and urges the international community to speak out against the Russian government's disregard for international norms on the treatment of civil society.

Type: Menace
Mardi 24th of juillet 2012

CIVICUS is Deeply Dismayed by Bill that stigmatises civil society in Russia

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

CIVICUS is deeply dismayed by the actions of the upper house of the Russian Parliment, the Federation Council, to pass a bill that stigmatises civil society groups which receive foreign funding.

The bill approved on 18 July obligates civil society advocacy groups which received foreign funding to register with the Justice Ministry as "foreign agents". The bill has received presidental approval.

CIVICUS believes that this regressive bill violates Russia's constituional and international law commitments to guarantee freedom of association.

Type: Menace
Mardi 10th of juillet 2012

International Community Must Act against latest curbs on free speech in Ethiopia

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Johannesburg, 9 July 2012: Recent moves to curb freedom of expression in Ethiopia

represent a steep escalation in an ongoing campaign to silence dissent, says global

civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

 On 27 June, prominent blogger and human rights defender Eskinder Nega was convicted

along with five other exiled journalists for attempting to incite violence and

overthrow the constitutional order. Eskinder was arrested on 14 September 2011 after

Type: Menace
Mardi 26th of juin 2012

Setback for Freedom of Assembly in Russia

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Johannesburg, 26 June 2012: Russia has taken a further step backwards on democratic

freedoms by amending the administrative code on illegal public events to punish

violations of rules through exorbitant fines, say CIVICUS: World Alliance for

Citizen Participation and Greenpeace Russia.

 

On 8 June 2012, President Putin signed into law controversial increases to existing

penalties for violating rules on participation in and organisation of public

protests. The new maximum penalty for participation in a protest that is not in

Type: Menace

Civil Society Shrinking in Uganda

Rapporté par: 
Natasha
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Space for civil society shrinking in Uganda say national and global CSOs

Johannesburg, 25 June 2012. Civil society space in Uganda is rapidly shrinking, warn

global network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Uganda-based

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP). Independent civil

society organisations are being openly threatened and placed under excessive

scrutiny by senior government officials.

 

For example, on 18 June, a skills-building workshop for LGBTI human rights defenders

Type: Menace
Vendredi 9th of mars 2012

Farmer and his two children killed, another wounded in massacre by 49th IB soldiers in Labo, Camarines Norte, Bicol, Southern Luzon, Philippines

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Account of the Incident:

 Four people –three civilians, including two children and an NPA rebel – were killed in a massacre by soldiers of the 49th Infantry Battalion in Labo, Camarines Norte on Feb. 25. Those killed were  Benjamin Mancera, 54 y.o., farmer, Michael Mancera, 10 y.o. Richard Mancera, seven y.o. and Rafael Llantino aka “Ka Pedro”, 29 years old, New People’s Army member.

Type: Menace
Mardi 1st of novembre 2011

Free Alaa

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

The military detained Alaa Abd El Fattah on Sunday, a high-profile blogger whose arrest by Mubarak's security forces in 2006 led one of the biggest campaign to release him in Mubarak's era.

Abd El Fattah refused to be questioned by military prosecutors over "inciting violence and sabotage" in connection with deadly clashes between the army and protesters on October 09, when more than 25 people were killed.

Type: Menace
Vendredi 28th of octobre 2011

Ales Bialiatski

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Ales Bialiatski is a Belarusian political activist with the Viasna Human Rights Centre and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Due to his work assisting victims of political terror and dispatching independent information on the situation in Belarus since 1996, Ales has suffered a long series of arrests, detentions and other forms of harassment. He was arrested on tax evasion charges on 4 August 2011 and could face up to seven years in prison.

Type: Menace
Jeudi 25th of août 2011

Death threats against human rights defenders Fr Inaldo Serejo and Mr Diogo Cabral

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

On 25 July 2011, Fr Inaldo Serejo, Coordinator of the Maranhão State branch of the Comissão Pastoral da Terra - CPT (Pastoral Land Commission), and Mr Diogo Cabral, human rights lawyer with the Comisão de Direitos Humanos da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – OABMA (Human Rights Commission at the Maranhão branch of the Bar Association) received death threats as they attended a preliminary hearing in the municipality of Cantanhede, in the State of Maranhão.

Type: Menace
Mercredi 17th of août 2011

Continuing detention incommunicado and judicial harassment faced by Mr. Mohamed Issa Al Tajer

Rapporté par: 
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Organisation/Company: 
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the continuing detention incommunicado and judicial harassment faced by Mr. Mohamed Issa Al Tajer, a prominent human rights lawyer.

New Information:

Type: Menace
Mercredi 13th of juillet 2011

Egypt to "consider tightening legal controls on foreign funding" to NGOs

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

The United States has violated Egypt’s sovereignty by offering funding to Egyptian civil institutions, organizations and associations without properly consulting the government, said Egyptian Minister of Solidarity and Social Justice Gouda Abdel Khaliq on Wednesday.

In a press statement, Abdel Khaliq said that his ministry has managed to track the flow of US funds to Egyptian groups in violation of Egyptian law.

Type: Menace
Jeudi 2nd of juin 2011

New country Curacao faces shutdown

Rapporté par: 
peter van honk
Organisation/Company: 
self

With a new independent status within the Dutch Kingdom, Curacao is destroying its social structure with intent. The so much needed democratic differentiation between state, market and social society is crumbling. The state has so much influence on the market and its profits, that only a small group of politicians and businesses have access to wealth. CEO's are appointed by the government and only these companies can do business with the leadership. The interest and welfare of the people, organizations and unions is ignored.

Type: Menace
Jeudi 28th of avril 2011

Water Born Diseases in Pakistan

Rapporté par: 
Mehtab Qureshi
Organisation/Company: 
Saharo Welfare Organization

One of the greatest problems in Pakistan is the availability and access to clean water. This not only limits agricultural production and industrial growth, but it is also the leading cause of disease and child mortality in the country. People, particularly in the rural areas, do not have access to clean drinking water. By resorting to drinking from the locally available water sources, the poor people are plagued with water-borne diseases, which is an immense financial burden in health care costs and also results in the loss of poor household incomes.

Type: Menace
Jeudi 7th of avril 2011

Soldiers deployed in Matabeleland

Rapporté par: 
Lerato Pagiwa
Organisation/Company: 
CIVICUS

Heavily armed soldiers have been deployed in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, a development which human rights organisations fear will revive memories of the massacres in which 20 000 civilians perished .Human rights groups say the soldiers have been deployed to intimidate

Type: Menace
Lundi 4th of avril 2011

OSCE: Reforms necessary for holding democratic elections in Kazakhstan have yet to materialize, observers say

Rapporté par: 
Larissa
Organisation/Company: 
Institute for Development Cooperation (IDC)

ASTANA, 4 April 2011 – Yesterday’s presidential vote in Kazakhstan revealed similar shortcomings as those noted in previous elections in the country, international observers said in a statement issued today. They noted that reforms necessary for holding genuine democratic elections have yet to materialize.

While the election was technically well administered, the absence of opposition candidates and of a vibrant political discourse resulted in a non-competitive environment. A limited field of candidates did not seek to challenge the incumbent.

Type: Menace

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrested in Beijing’s airport

Rapporté par: 
Lu Jochen
Organisation/Company: 
Taiwanese

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, activist who is also active in architecture, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.

Type: Menace
Dimanche 20th of mars 2011

Religious propaganda spreads at polling stations

Rapporté par: 
nawara belal
Organisation/Company: 
The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement

Amid a large presence of campaigners affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, thousands of voters streamed to the polls Saturday in Giza to vote on proposed amendments to the 1971 Constitution, marking rare fair elections in Egypt’s political history.

The Brotherhood, according to eyewitnesses, called for imams to speak in front of the polling stations about the benefits of voting “yes”.

Type: Menace
Lundi 21st of février 2011

Information about Jasmine Revolution in China 中國茉莉革命訊息

Rapporté par: 
Jochen
Organisation/Company: 
Individual

Information about Jasmine Revolution in China 中國茉莉革命訊息

Type: Menace

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