Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Triggered by the events of the recent days, the rise in discriminatory rhetoric and harmful language has reached alarming levels, posing a significant threat to the dignity, safety and well-being of m...
We, the undersigned international human rights organisations declare our solidarity with Saturday Mothers/People, who have been protesting since May 1995 for truth and justice for their forcibly disap...
The controversial law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” has been adopted by the Georgian parliament, despite weeks of massive protests against it. This is deeply concerning – the law undermines d...
Joint Statement by Syrian and International Civil Society Organisations and Victims’ Associations in support of investigating Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks. We are Syrian and international civi...
The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced that they again want to try and pass a controversial law that aims to limit foreign influence. A similar law was proposed in 2023 but was dropped after ma...
The Kyrgyz parliament recently adopted a new law that threatens civic activism, freedoms of speech, assembly, and association. Civil Rights Defenders, together with several international human rights ...
On 3 March 2023, Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 and Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2014, was sentenced to ten years in prison. FIDH Vice-President V...
Today, on Zero Discrimination Day, we, five non-governmental organisations dealing with the protection of human rights, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR KS); Center for Equal...
57 civil society organisations from Kosovo have sent an open letter to the Speaker of the Kosovo Assembly, Mr. Glauk Konjufca, regarding the discriminatory statements of the Chairperson of the Parliam...
Repression against human rights defenders and democracy activists is escalating in Venezuela. On 14 February, the government of Nicolás Maduro expelled the UN Human Rights Office in Caracas. The exp...
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