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 Spanish: http://blog-redlad.blogspot.com.co/2017/10/alerta-la-paz-en-colombia-debe-proteger.html With the purpose of giving compliance to the fourth chapter of the Final Agreement for the termination of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace, the peasants, mostly Afro and indigenous of Tumaco, a town in the department of Nariño, to the south of Colombia, held a peaceful…
Last week, Rosa Maria Paya, Luis Almagro OAS Secretary General, and other Latin American activists signed onto the “Observatory on Transparency and Anti-Corruption” initiative at the OAS headquarters. Paya is the President of the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (JuventudLAC), which has been working alongside regional partners to develop the initiative. With the support of…