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freedom of expression

A drained democracy: The clash between national security and freedom of expression in Hong Kong

Thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Whitehall outside Downing Street.
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freedom of assembly and association

The new CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist highlights serious concerns regarding the exercise of civic freedoms in Italy

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non-violence

What happens when students unite for justice: The pulse of Serbian protests

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freedom of expression

Freedom House: Freedom in the World 2025 Report has been released, The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Iran's Literacy Movement Organization (LMO) are making efforts to integrate population and reproductive health messages at all levels of literacy classes in the selected provinces of Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan, Golestan and Kordestan and the semi-urban area of Islam Shahr, south of the capital, Tehran. The messages that are incorporated into the literacy curricula are on issues such as reproductive health, women's empowerment, and reproductive rights of women, gender equality, and male involvement in family life, education of the girl child and those related to adolescents. Some women bring their children to class as they haven't anyone to look after them. The student's ages range from nine to forty-five. Students at Navid Danesh girl's high school.
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Iran

Iran: UN experts identify human rights violation in the provisions of the new Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab

Italy

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights asks the Italian Senate to refrain from adopting the security bill which runs against human rights

Locandina Advocacy Hub Silenced Voices and Violated Rights: The Voice of the Belarus Opposition, October 21th, 2024
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Silenced Voices and Violated Rights: The Voice of the Belarus Opposition, October 21th, 2024

Bangladesh

OHCHR: Türk decries government crackdown in Bangladesh and urges respect for international human rights standards

Students at risk
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

People at Risk: Scholarships for Palestinian students and academics

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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freedom of expression

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: the new Law on Foreign Influence in Georgia affects freedom of expression and association

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civic space

Challenges and victories of civil society in 2024: an insight from CIVICUS

Protesters demonstrate outside the Columbia University campus in New York City
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human rights

United Nations: Campus crackdowns and freedom of expression crisis

A voter dips his finger in indelible ink before casting his vote during the Second National Village Council (sucos) elections of 9 October in Dili, Timor-Leste, 2009
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civil and political rights

Freedom House: 2024 report "The Mounting Damage of Flawed Elections and Armed Conflict"

On the left a photo of a protest in Hong Kong, on the right a photo of a protest in Chile, both in 2019
freedom of assembly and association

What factors make or break a protest? Lessons from the 2019 Hong Kong and Chile movements

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Italy

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: Italy Country visit report 2023