Amendment Would Extend Restrictions to Individuals, Including Bloggers. Civil Rights Defenders, together with nine human rights organisations, is concerned by a new bill before the Russian parliament ...
On 6 November, a Moscow city court sided with the Russian Ministry of Justice and ordered the closure of Russia’s only and strongest indigenous rights organisations, the Centre for the Support of Indi...
On 1 November, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the well-known human rights organisation and movement Za Prava Cheloveka (For Human Rights) to cease its operations. Civil Rights Defenders urges the Russ...
Right now, more than a thousand guests have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia, to take part in one of the largest LGBTI+ events in the coun...
Today marks the beginning of Queerfest 2019 – a ten-day celebration of LGBTI+ activism in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since Queerfest opened its doors for the first...
As a consequence of their expansive work towards Chechen LGBT survivors, human rights organisation the Russian LGBT Network has faced yet another crackdown from allegedly Chechen perpetrators. Civil R...
Today, 17 May, is the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. A day celebrated worldwide as a commemoration of LGBT rights. However, hatred and prejudices against the LGBT comm...
Dear Stefan Löfven, The acute human rights situation in Russia negatively impacts both Sweden’s security and its foreign policy priorities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Support for hu...
It has been one year since Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechen office of Russian human rights group Memorial – was arrested and deprived of liberty. Civil Rights Defenders emphasises the arbitrariness of...
Russian human rights defender and co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Ludmilla Alexseyeva, has passed away at the age of 91. For more than seven decades, she has been a symbol of justice within t...
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