Statements

Since 30 May 2021, 10 hate-related attacks against LGBTI+ persons have been reported in Baku, Azerbaijan. The attacks include physical violence, threats, and harassment with explicit homophobic and tr...

Notable events are unfolding in Ethiopia carrying opportunities and risks. On 28 June 2021, the federal government declared a unilateral ceasefire in Tigray and withdrew forces. On the same day the re...

Civil Rights Defenders and 15 other Syrian and international organizations jointly welcome the recent call by 27 members of the European Parliament for an action plan on impunity with a chapter on Syr...

In March 2021, Civil Rights Defenders and other human rights organisations urged the UN to create a new mandate that would assist the process of accountability for human rights violations committed in...

Civil Rights Defenders condemns recent threats, harassment and hate speech against our partner, Albanian LGBTI+ activist Xheni Karaj, who appeared on national television ...

Hungary’s adoption of legislation which outlaws any depiction or discussion LGBTI+ issues in public, including in the media, is deeply discriminatory and violates Hungary’s international human rights ...

Russian and international human rights organisations are deeply concerned about the news from Chechnya that Magomed Gadaev, who was illegally deported from France in April this year, refused the servi...

Alexandr Lukashenka’s hijacking of a civilian plane and arrest of prominent independent journalist Raman Pratasevich and activistSofia Sapega stirred up large intern...

Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Colombian government to increase efforts to de-escalate violence, guarantee the right to peaceful protest and work with human rights organisations to prev...

Ahead of the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Coun­cil (21 June-15 July 2021), Civil Rights Defenders and 34 Eritrean, African and international organisations urge all states to sup­port the adop­­...