But the right to assembly has often been at risk. Recent crackdowns against protest and dissent risk violating that right, as ...

Gina Romero, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, spoke at the Law School on Monday on the right to peacefully assemble and protest at universities worldwide.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that Libyan authorities have used a “litany of overbroad and draconian legacy laws” to suppress civil rights activists and organizations. The group said the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday that Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and periodically used disproportionate force against protesters since ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: In light of widespread global restrictions on civil society, civicus is launching a new tool to measure the freedoms that people around the world have to protest, organise and speak ...

Our organizations, Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture, ACAT-France), Act Together for Human Rights (Agir ensemble pour les droits ...

Since the end of the pro-democracy Hirak protest movement (2019-2021), the Algerian authorities have intensified their repression of peaceful dissent. They have targeted independent civil society ...

Punta Cana.- President Luis Abinader and José Roberto Dutriz, head of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), signed the ...

Abinader strongly emphasized his government’s commitment to transparency, saying that criticisms only improve government. He also talked at length about the administration’s legislation that covers ...