Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, has been on a hunger strike since his detention on 1 October 2021. The doctors subsequently reported that Saakashvili’s health condition became crit...
While the Georgian local elections on 2 October were well-administered and contestants could campaign freely, the election process was tainted by widespread allegations o...
We, ILGA-Europe and the undersigned human rights organisations, call on the President and government of Uzbekistan, member of the UN Human Rights Council, to decriminalise same-sex conduct between men...
More and more journalists and civil society organisations are being sued by powerful businessmen and politicians. We call on the EU to ensure that those with a watchdog role are protected from lawsuit...
The Ukrainian LGBTI+ activist Olena Shevchenko is one of the participants in our security programme, the Natalia Project. Olena and her colleagues are an important voice for human rights in Ukraine. T...
As Belarus is well into the campaign ahead of the presidential election on 9 August, we witness both old practices and some surprising changes compared to previous presidential elections. The co...
In a letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Civil Rights Defenders and 23 other organisations call on the UN Human Rights Cou...
Promoting and protecting civil and political rights has never been free of risk. Under pretense of national security, public order, or morals, repressive regimes may intensify their efforts to silence...
Since the launch in 2013, Natalia Project – the world’s first assault alarm and positioning system for human rights defenders at risk – has grown significantly. Today, the project includes more than 2...
On 1 November, Ukrainian human rights defender and LGBTI+ activist Olena Shevchenko was attacked by two unknown perpetrators in Kyiv, Ukraine. The attackers shouted homophobic slurs and caused moderat...
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