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PORTUGAL: dock workers adversely impacted by state of emergency during pandemic

Update by ECF originally published on Civicus Monitor, 15 June 2020 - accessible here BACKGROUND Plataforma Portuguesa das ONGD (Portuguese NonGovernmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) Platform) reported that a state of…

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6 July 2020
Freedom of association

PORTUGAL: Problematic transposition of the EU directive against Money Laundering

In 2017, two legislations aiming at transposing EU directive 2015/849 (Fourth European Directive against Money Laundering) were passed by the Portuguese state. These new measures are on the one hand…

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23 May 2019
Freedom of expression

PORTUGAL: Government restricts access to information on “Golden Visas”

(European Civic Forum on CIVICUS Monitor) In late March, Transparency International Portugal reported that the government had failed to provide the public with detailed information on so-called "golden visas", investment-related resident permits which…

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8 July 2018
PORTUGAL: Civil society complaint on harmful speech receives state support
Freedom of association

PORTUGAL: Civil society complaint on harmful speech receives state support

(CIVICUS Monitor) Positive action on harmful speech A positive case of cooperation between the Portuguese government and civil society occurred at the beginning of January 2018 when the state's Equality Body filed…

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17 May 2018
PORTUGAL: campaign ‘We are all Arlindo Marques’, reaction to SLAPP by Celtejo
Freedom of expression / Initiatives and campaigns

PORTUGAL: campaign ‘We are all Arlindo Marques’, reaction to SLAPP by Celtejo

(PPL) Solidarity with Arlindo Consolado Marques in the suit filed by Celtejo-Empresa de Celulose do Tejo, SA, of the ALTRI Group Dear friends of the Tagus, Arlindo Consolado Marques, a member…

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23 February 2018
PORTUGAL: parliament votes to give journalists better legal protection
Freedom of expression

PORTUGAL: parliament votes to give journalists better legal protection

(RSF) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the Portuguese parliament’s adoption of two laws increasing the penalties for crimes against media personnel, which are in line with RSF’s recommendations for better…

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23 February 2018
PORTUGAL: Low wages and job insecurity threaten media freedom
Freedom of expression

PORTUGAL: Low wages and job insecurity threaten media freedom

(Index on censorship) Although not exposed to the perils that press freedom encounters in places such as Turkey or Hungary, experts in Portugal tell Mapping Media Freedom that journalists in the country…

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9 January 2017

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