On 22 April, the EU will review its suspended sanctions on Burma. A permanent lifting of sanctions is premature, says Civil Rights Defenders and the Swedish Burma Committee. The two organisations urge...
Civil Rights Defenders and the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation express their deep concerns and strongly condemn the death threat against Ms. Nazlie Bala, a well respected Kosovo human rights defender. T...
Civil Rights Defenders urges the government of Kosovo and relevant institutions to bring to justice everyone responsible for the recent attacks, threats and hate crimes by religious extremist and radi...
Civil Rights Defenders urges Swedish authorities to denounce the proposed Russian bill on “propaganda of homosexuality among minors” and call on Russian authorities to honor their international and do...
On 19 December the Russian Duma will begin the first reading of a bill which, if passed, effectively will ban “propaganda of homosexuality” in the country. The bill is allegedly aimed at protecting ch...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the fact that the infamous so-called anti-gay bill once again is on the table in the Ugandan parliament, and urges president Museveni to use his veto to block ...
The Night Watch – this is what a group of about 20 Russia Young activists called the late-night act of vandalism on the premises of two internationally funded Russian human rights organisations as wel...
On 14 November, highly controversial amendments to the treason law, that expands the definition of treason, took effect in Russia. This happened only two days after Vladimir Putin expressed willingnes...
Last week, the Russian parliament voted for amendments to existing legislation that widens the legal definition of treason, equating it to espionage, and adds international organisations to the list o...
Civil Rights Defenders and other human rights organisations today urge that Thai magazine editor and human rights defender Somyot Prueksakasemsuk be immediately released from 17-month pre-trial detent...
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