The office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny, Chechnya, was destroyed by an arson attack on 13 December 2014. The following day Chechen police raided the apartment of JMG employees confiscatin...
The ongoing smear campaign against Vanja Calovic, Head of the human rights organisation MANS, has reached new heights. Civil Rights Defenders demands an urgent response and actions taken by the author...
Recently state-controlled Russian channel, NTV featured a piece about Civil Rights Defenders’ long term partner Memorial suggesting that the organisation was supporting terrorists and radical gr...
A life of defending human rights comes with the risk of intimidation, violence, imprisonment and defamation. But a woman also risks further violations linked to her integrity and sexuality. To smear a...
On 25 May, local elections were held across Montenegro’s 12 municipalities. Vanja Ćalović, head of the organisation “Network for Affirmation of the Civil Sector” (MANS) which works on corruption and t...
Ales Bialiatski, founder of the Belarusian human rights organisation Viasna, is the recipient of the 2014 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award. For over 30 years, he has pursued a life of continuou...
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