Statements

Following Sweden’s Supreme Court ruling on January 23 2020, confirming the Girja’s Sami village land and water rights in the Sami traditional territory, we have received more and more reports of...

Russian feminist and LGBTI+ activist Yulia Tsvetkova may face up to six years in prison on charges of pornography, after sharing some of her artwork on social media. Yulia Tsvetkova is known for her i...

Statement in relation to the International Women’s Day 2020 25 years After the Beijing Conference: Still Not Doing Enough to Protect Women Human Rights Defenders in Africa In commemoration of the 2020...

Civil Rights Defenders demands that Serbia honors its commitments to the European Convention of Human Rights, namely regarding the right to security and the right to freedom of expression, following a...

In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International call for the immediate and unconditional release of four Burmese human rights defenders. They were convicted...

On 25 February, Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court will review the appeal by Azimjon Askarov, a local human rights defender imprisoned for life in September 2010 in retaliation for his work. Ci...

South Sudanese human rights defender Edmund Yakani has been subjected to death threats after being invited, among other stakeholders, to participate in a consultative meeting held in Juba this morning...

Together with 12 other NGOs, Civil Rights Defenders has signed a letter to the Core Group and Co-Sponsoring States of the initiative for the creation of a new multilateral treaty for the domestic pros...

The situation for migrants in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues to be worrisome. Following a recent case of police brutality against four migrant men, witnessed by one of Civil Rights Defend...

On 15 December 2019, Civil Rights Defenders took part in the 9th Assembly Session of the Coalition for RECOM in Zagreb, Croatia. The following day, on 16 December 2019, it participated on the 12th For...