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…
Last month, civil society organizations across Uganda endured office raids by the country’s police, who spent hours removing documents and confiscating phones and laptops. The raids in Uganda offer insight into a deeper—and troubling—trend: in many parts of the world, civil society organizations are experiencing a crackdown by governments that are increasingly turning to bureaucratic…
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…
Detained Congolese activist Timothée Mbuya, president of the human rights organization Justicia, has now spent over two months behind bars for participating in a peaceful protest on July 31, 2017. Mbuya was arrested alongside four other activists in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. While Mbuya’s trial is still pending, the other four activists lost their…