Prominent Russian LGBT activist Sergey Alexseenko and long-term partner of Civil Rights Defenders was found guilty under the archaic “propaganda of homosexuality” law, which, was introduced in 2013. T...
Civil Rights Defenders Op Ed in The Guardian, November 23: News that Sweden and Norway are considering cuts to their international aid budgets in order to use the money to support refugees is of conce...
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...
On 17 September, the seventh International Queerfest kicked off in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ten day long festival gathered more than 2 500 spectators, who visited the events or watched the festival...
On the 11th of October President Lukashenka will run for a 5th term in office. Civil Rights Defenders spoke to three Belarusian human rights defenders to hear what they have to say about the election....
On 17 September the seventh International Festival of Queer Culture kicks off in St. Petersburg, Russia. Running until 27 September, the festival is a unique human rights event created to develop open...
The Swedish summer has been a veritable downpour, raining almost every day. However the clouds cleared on 1 August 2015 as hundreds of thousands lined the street to welcome the endless themed floats a...
Today, 4 August, is celebrated as the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society in Belarus. It is all the more important as the human rights landscape in Belarus has not improved, having been...
The recent Russian Law on “Undesirable Foreign Organisations” saw the first overseas NGO, the US based organisation National Endowment for Democracy (NED) added to the blacklist. Signed into law by Pr...
On 13 April, 2015 three unidentified men sprayed asphyxiating gas into the office of our partner Maximum an LGBT organisation based in Murmansk, Russia injuring two individuals. There has been a histo...
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