After almost five decades under despotic military rule, the people of Myanmar will head to the polls on November 8. But hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority group, have lost...
With just two days remaining until Azerbaijan’s parliamentary elections, the Sport for Rights campaign of which Civil Rights Defenders is a member, has launched a new report examining the unprecedente...
The Myanmar authorities should immediately release from prison and drop all charges against activist Myat Nu Khaing, Civil Rights Defenders said today. Myat Nu Khaing, an independent candidate contest...
Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the news that the Federal High Court in Ethiopia has acquitted five Zone 9 Bloggers, four of whom have been held in prison since April 2014, on terrorism charges. Abel ...
On 17 September, the seventh International Queerfest kicked off in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ten day long festival gathered more than 2 500 spectators, who visited the events or watched the festival...
On 25 September Civil Rights Defenders, together with our partners from the Roma Cultural Centre and the Know-How Centre, organized the first Festival of Roma Culture and Activism (FRKA) in the Serbia...
On the 11th of October President Lukashenka will run for a 5th term in office. Civil Rights Defenders spoke to three Belarusian human rights defenders to hear what they have to say about the election....
In a joint statement eleven civil society organizations, including Civil Rights Defenders, express concern about the possible refoulement by the Cambodian government of over 100 Montagnard asylum seek...
The police in the Montenegrin city of Niksic has issued a ban against a Pride March, scheduled for 18 September, at the city’s liberation day from fascism. The ban was allegedly issued due to security...
Civil Rights Defenders is delighted to support Belgrade Pride Week 2015, which kicked off on 14 September. The action packed week consists of a wide variety of cultural exhibitions, community-oriented...
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