Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
In January 2017, more than 40 civil society organisations from Burma/Myanmar called for the establishment of an independent international commission to investigate what is being said to be an ongoing ...
In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists call on the Cambodian authorities to immediately drop the politicall...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to fulfil their international commitments to protect civil and political rights by immediately releasing human rights defender and journalist Az...
Four years ago, during two media appearances in Berlin and Bishkek, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev publicly announced that he had no interest in keeping an innocent man in jail. The man Atambayev...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the recent attack against several human rights defenders from the Youth Initiative of Human Rights (YIHR) of Serbia, a long time partner of Civil Rights Defenders and d...
A number of press freedom and human rights organisations including International Media Support strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaij...
Civil Rights Defenders is seriously concerned with public threats made by a high-ranking government official in Chechnya against Grigoriy Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the independent news portal Caucas...
The Vietnamese authorities continue to step up their repression against civil society with the recent convictions of human rights defenders Trần Anh Kim and Lê Thanh Tùng on 16 December. Both are accu...
On the fourth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of prominent Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, Civil Rights Defenders and 131 undersigned organisations in a statement have urged the a...
In light of Fidel Castros death and the increasing repression against the democracy movement in Cuba, the EU Council and the European Parliament should ask themselves if the Political Dialogue and Coo...
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