On September 3, 2017, Egyptian authorities arrested 24 Nubian activists, including human rights lawyers Maysara Abdoun and Mohamed Azmy, during a peaceful demonstration in Aswan, Egypt. The activists’ protests drew attention to the forced displacement of Nubians from their historic lands between 1912 and 1964 and demanded that the Egyptian government grant them “their right…
On October 23, 2017, 55 international civil society organizations (CSOs) issued an open letter about the government’s extreme crackdown on Cambodia’s independent media, political opposition, and members of civil society over the past year. In addition to the Cambodian National Assembly’s recent attempt to pass legislation that allows the government to dissolve political parties, the letter notes that independent…
On October 13, 2017, the Ugandan government froze the financial accounts of ActionAid Uganda, a vocal opponent of the Age Limit Bill, and accused the civil society organization (CSO) of conducting illegal activities. ActionAid Uganda is one of several organizations, including Solidarity Uganda and the Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies (GLISS), recently targeted by…
In August 2017, two Mexican anti-corruption civil society groups #FiscalíaQueSirva and #VamosPorMás mobilized citizens on social media to demand greater independence for the newly created Federal Prosecutor General Office (FGR). Both groups are trying to “stop the candidacy” of Raúl Cervantes as the head of the FGR, as well as implement a new system and…