The organization also cited the “violent repression and arbitrary arrest” of journalists as contributing to their rating for ...

Civicus warns of ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ as Trump’s second term sees protests met with military force, media ...

The United States is on a downward trajectory when it comes to respect for civil rights, with an international monitoring ...

The rights group said Indonesian authorities have crushed protests with violence, harassed human rights groups and ...

The US has been placed on a rights watchlist by international civil society organizations, citing urgent concerns about the ...

CIVICUS Monitor includes Indonesia in its watchlist. Prabowo Subianto's government is deemed to suppress civil liberties.

The CIVICUS Monitor currently rates Indonesia as “obstructed”, indicating serious challenges to the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. Indonesia joins Kenya, El Salvador, ...

CIVICUS, a South Africa-based nonprofit organization that exists to “strengthen civil society,” added the U.S. to its human rights “monitor watchlist” on Monday.

CIVICUS said it believes that media reporting on alleged official corruption was behind the move. The report also cited the arrests — some violent — of journalists, and media being blocked ...

Germany’s ranking on the CIVICUS Monitor was downgraded from “open” to “narrowed” in 2023—a relegation that Petrović says was widely attributed to the state’s actions against ...

Sylvia Mbataru, a human rights lawyer and CIVICUS researcher, said almost 900 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live in politically repressed societies.