Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
At 5AM Kyiv time today, Putin launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine. On 21 February 2022, Russia overrode the Minsk agreement by illegally recognising the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk P...
The human rights situation in Belarus is deteriorating. In a joint letter, we are calling for the renewal of the mandate of the OHCHR examination of the human rights situation in Belarus. 21 Febr...
A further armed conflict in Ukraine would be devastating for human rights in both countries. Since Russia illegally occupied Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the situation for human rights, and ci...
Civil Rights Defenders has together with eight other organisations and individuals issued a declaration stressing the systematic marginalisation and discrimination affecting Roma LGBTI+ persons. We ca...
On the evening of 20 January, a group of men who introduced themselves as police officers from Chechnya forcefully entered the apartment of retired federal judge Sayda Iangulbaev and his wife Zarema M...
On 25 December, the Russian state media regulator Roskomnadzor blocked the website of OVD-Info, an independent Russian media and human rights project and the recipient of the Civil Rights Defender of ...
Large protests have erupted in Kazakhstan in recent days. A nation-wide state of emergency has been declared and according to official information, at least 300 people have been injured, and several d...
In an unprecedented and appalling move, the Russian authorities forced the closure of Memorial, a leading human rights watchdog. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled to shut down International Memorial ...
Memorial, a cornerstone of Russian civil society, is under threat of liquidation by the Russian authorities on baseless charges. Memorial’s two entities – Memorial Human Rights Centre and Intern...
Attacks against Russia’s LGBTI+ communities escalated in November, as state-sponsored media repeatedly targeted the Russian LGBT Network and its co-founder Igor Kochetkov in coordinated smear campaign...
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