Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Ethiopia is in a double shock since Monday 29 June, 2020. The murder of Haacaaluu Hundessa, a popular resistance singer, and the political and security crisis that followed is shocking the entire coun...
Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) welcome the prospect of a continued Argentinian investigation into atrocity crimes against the Rohingya under the principle of universal jurisdiction. A rec...
Michael Pack was recently appointed by President Trump as the new CEO of the U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM). On Wednesday 17 June, the heads of four organisations overseen by the agency were all ...
In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders and several human rights organisations and media outlets urge the Cuban government to declare Decree-Law 370 unconstitutional. The undersigned organisation...
In Kyrgyzstan, human rights defender Kamil Ruziev is facing forgery charges that appear to have been brought in retaliation for his human rights work. Civil Rights Defenders, together with four other ...
Last Thursday (May 14), North Macedonia’s Constitutional Court ruled to repeal the Law on Prevention and Protection Against Discrimination. The legislation represents the cornerstone of a decade-long ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently decided to initiate an investigation into war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, as well as to investigate the situation in Palestine. This...
In the early hours of this morning, Albanian authorities took the appalling decision to demolish the National Theatre, which has been a divisive and controversial issue in recent years. Under the cove...
Civil Rights Defenders joins almost fifty organisations in a joint statement on the increased persecution of journalists and civil society actors in Cuba. This persecution has increased since the begi...
As part of the #FreeThePress campaign, Civil Rights Defenders and 192 other press freedom and human rights organisations have written an open letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. ...
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