Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Civil Rights Defenders condemns in the strongest terms the recent decision by Serbian authorities to ban the “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” festival. This festival, scheduled to take place in Belgrade during ...
Joint Civil Society Statement Urging U.S. Attorney General to Direct Lafarge Asset Forfeiture to Benefit Victims and Survivors. The undersigned organizations and individuals—with representation from S...
Free Activists; Drop Charges (Stockholm, June 12, 2024) –The Kyrgyzstan prosecutors’ request 20-year sentences for a group of government critics in the so-called Kempir-Abad case compounds an al...
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...
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