Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Cuban Human Rights Defender, Ailer Gonzalez Mena, of Estado de SATS, has been threatened by the Cuban authorities over the weekend. The security police visited her father and told him they had evidenc...
The second half of 2015 saw an alarming rise in the number of violent attacks and threats against human rights defenders, petitioners, and their family members in Vietnam. Civil Rights Defenders calls...
Civil Rights Defenders is gravely concerned regarding the security infringements of Magomed Mutsolgov, a prominent human rights defender and leader of MASHR, an Ingush human rights organisation locate...
In a joint statement eleven civil society organisations, including Civil Rights Defenders, express concern about the possible refoulement by the Cambodian government of over 100 Montagnard asylum seek...
Civil Rights Defenders and 23 other European and Cuban organisations in a letter to Federica Mogherini from the European Commission voiced their opinions regarding the demands that the EU should seek ...
Civil Rights Defenders condemn the politically motivated sentencing of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadiya Ismayilova to 7.5 years in prison. Today, 1 September, Khadiya was convicted by the ...
In an open letter, Civil Rights Defenders and a coalition of international, regional and domestic human rights groups addresses the deteriorating human rights situation in Cambodia and ensuring that t...
The Sport for Rights coalition that includes Civil Rights Defenders recently issued a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Leyla and Arif Yunus, as well as other jailed jou...
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni signed the draft Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (LANGO) last night, on the same day the Constitutional Council declared the legislation constit...
Despite an international and domestic outcry, the Cambodian National Assembly passed the restrictive and unnecessary draft Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) today with unan...
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