Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the recent escalation of repression of Crimean Tatars in the occupied peninsula, culminating in the raids on private homes on 23 November and resulted in the d...
The Azerbaijani government’s proposed amendments to the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure and the Bar Act were approved by parliament on 31 October 2017. The amendments, which were first prop...
On 23 October 2017, Civil Rights Defenders and 54 other organisations sent an open letter to Mr. António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Joko Widodo, Preside...
Last week Civil Rights Defenders’ Eurasia Department received one of our partners working with LGBT rights, as they were visiting Stockholm, Sweden. The visit aimed at providing knowledge and expertis...
The attack on Baku’s LGBT community is continuing, as local activists say Bakuvians with “non-traditional appearance” are still being stopped and questioned on the street and around metro stations. Co...
Innovation Challenge 2017 focus on the security of our human rights defenders, as well as creative reporting. You will be able to submit an idea related to either one of the two themes and compete to ...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction by a court in Russia-controlled Crimea of Akhtem Chiyhoz, the deputy leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis assembly, and calls upon the government of the Ru...
The Hague, 5 September 2017 Dear members of the IAP Executive Committee and the Senate, Dear members of the IAP, In the run-up to the annual conference and general meeting of the International Associa...
9 June 2017 Mr. António Guterres United Nations Secretary-General United Nations 405 E 42nd St. New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Guterres, In advance of your upcoming trip to Tajikistan, we write to reques...
Background In a letter issued to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vitebsk city in Belarus, Civil Rights Defenders calls for the immediate release of Pavel Levinov and for all administrative charges to...
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