Statements

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. ...

In a letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Civil Rights Defenders and 23 other organisations call on the UN Human Rights Cou...

On 23 March, the draft law – which could impose restrictions on the constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly – was passed in the parliament and sent to the Senate. A number of human righ...

The Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders – Turkey, of which Civil Rights Defenders has been a member since its inception, has issued a statement regarding the growing targeting of organ...

Civil Rights Defenders and 73 media, press freedom, and human rights organisations write to Asian heads of state to call on their respective governments to release all jailed journalists amid the swee...

Since the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, the Kenyan government has introduced a series of measures to curb its spread in the country, including banning all public and social gatherings an...