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Slovenia: Cycling protests continue as protesters claim gov't is limiting civic freedoms by attacking media & environmental defenders
Author: Marja Novak, Reuters
"Slovenia anti-government protests continue as country calls an end to epidemic", 15 May 2020...
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Slovenia: Members of Balkan River Defense civil society organization's peaceful protest disrupted by police
Author: 8th of March Institute (Institut 8.marec)
This is an unofficial translation from Slovenian by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre....
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Slovenia: Thousands protest & environmental organizations denounce 'government's declaration of war on nature' to facilitate investment
Civil society in Slovenia has been highly critical of the recent developments, where the new government has included in its coronavirus crisis stimulus package the provisions aimed at deregulation of construction legislation and speeding up of...
African countries increasingly considering nuclear energy to meet electricity needs
Author: Chiponda Chimbelu, Deutsche Welle
"African countries mull nuclear energy as Russia extends offers", 22 October 2019....
Author: Pierre Hamdi, France 24, The Observers（英国）
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- Related in-depth areas: 中资企业海外投资
- Related companies: China Railway Engineering China Railway Group (CREC) (part of China Railway Engineering)
Dem. Rep. of Congo: Local community claims Chinese construction company CREC 7 charges excessive tolls on unsafe road; company comments included
Author: Pierre Hamdi, France 24, The Observers
"Chinese construction company sets up toll booth in Congo, angers locals", 22 April 2019....
- Related in-depth areas: Chinese investment overseas
- Related companies: China Railway Engineering China Railway Group (CREC) (part of China Railway Engineering)
Author: Andoni Maiza Larrarte and Gloria Claudio-Quiroga, Quartz Africa
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Dem. Rep. of Congo: Chinese minerals-for-infrastructure Sicomines deal has failed to benefit the Congolese population according to analysts
Author: Andoni Maiza Larrarte and Gloria Claudio-Quiroga, Quartz Africa
"How to avoid flawed minerals-for-infrastructure deals like DR Congo and China's Sicomines pact", 3 April 2019....
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Nigeria: NGOs allege human rights abuses by Wilmar International; company denies claims
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria allege that Wilmar International’s operations continue to impact negatively on the human rights of local communities, contrary to the company’s “no deforestation, no peat and no exploitation pol...
NGOs and activists exposing businesses’ negative human rights impacts increasingly vulnerable to persecution, says analyst
Author: Mandeep. S. Tiwana, CIVICUS, in IPS (Inter Press Service)
'Opinion: why are threats to civic space growing across the world?', 11 Jun 2015:...In recent years, there has been a perceptible rise in restrictions on…the fundamental freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly…[D]angers to civic...