Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
As the European Union approaches the renewal of its Common Position on Burma in April, members of the European Burma Network, including Civil Rights Defenders , are calling on the European Union to fu...
Dubrovnik, 22nd of March 2019 Civil Rights Defenders and the AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) organised the Sixth Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe. The topic of thi...
In a gross violation of his human rights, Oyub Titiev, human rights activist and director of Memorial in Chechnya, was today sentenced to four years in a penal colony settlement. Civil Rights Defender...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the ongoing attacks unfolding in Banja Luka since December 24, 2018, aiming to narrow down freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in the Bosnia and Herzegovina e...
Turkish human rights defender Osman Kavala who is, since November 2017, imprisoned pending trial, along with 15 other civil society actors, all of whom are accused of “attempting to overthrow the gove...
Civil Rights Defenders warns that law changes enacting a new administrative court system in Hungary and giving the Justice Minister more power will further limit the judiciary’s independence and could...
In the days leading up to the fifth LGBTQI+ Family conference in Moscow, several LGBTI activists were attacked and threatened. Because of the repeated assaults, following a similar trend as previous y...
The Uzbekistani authorities should stop harassing human rights activists, including those recently released from prison, and ensure their safety, Amnesty International, Civil Rights Defenders, Front L...
In September, two Reuters reporters were convicted and sentenced for violating the Official Secrets Act in Myanmar. The state counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, invited anyone who believes in the rule of l...
Civil Rights Defenders and RFSL welcome the invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to finally address impunity for serious human rights violations and abuses in Chechnya. The decision to invoke the O...
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