Statements

On 15 March 2021, journalist Elena Milashina from the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an investigation into a mass execution in Chechnya in 2017. Following the publicatio...

Civil Rights Defenders demands members of Serbia’s ruling party refrain from threatening civil society organisations and calls upon the Public Prosecutor to investigate recent threats against our part...

On 8 March, an additional three protesters were killed in Myitkyina and Pyapon when the Burmese military opened fire on peaceful demonstrations. Approximately 90 protesters were arbitrarily detained, ...

We, ILGA-Europe and the undersigned human rights organisations, call on the President and government of Uzbekistan, member of the UN Human Rights Council, to decriminalise same-sex conduct between men...

In a letter to Russia’s Prosecutor General, Igor Krasnov, Civil Rights Defenders and six human rights organisations express concern over the unfounded criminal prosecution of Yulia Tsvetkova, a ...

We, the undersigned associations and human rights organisations, call on the Human Rights Council to create a new mechanism assisting the process of accountability for human rights violations in Belar...

Civil Rights Defenders is alarmed by the grave human rights violations that have occurred during the war in Tigray, Ethiopia’s northernmost region. The devastating number of confirmed cases of sexual ...

On the morning of Tuesday 16 February, the Belarusian authorities unleashed a new brutal attack against the human rights and media community in the country. The authorities conducted searches in sever...

We, the undersigned, express our grave concern over reports that two Chechen men were arbitrarily detained by the police in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and forcibly transferred to Chechnya. Th...

To: Member and Observer State of the United Nations Human Rights Council Regarding the Urgent Situation in Myanmar Subject: Open Letter from Civil Society Organizations calling on the Council’s immedi...