The authorities have started a new wave of detentions of LGBTI+ people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network and Novaya Gazeta confirmed the information about illegal detentions of around 40 men and w...
Technology is improving at an exponential rate. Today, it is being used to empower everyone, including authoritarian state actors. This is the last of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s Specia...
Almost five months ago, the Shali distric court in the Russian constituent republic of Chechnya opened the trial in the case of human rights defender Oyub Titiev. When it comes to cases of politically...
In the days leading up to the fifth LGBTQI+ Family conference in Moscow, several LGBTI activists were attacked and threatened. Because of the repeated assaults, following a similar trend as previous y...
Human rights defenders who work to promote and protect human rights in their communities across the world are often threatened and attacked to stay silent. Ugandan LGBTI activist Frank Mugisha has exp...
The Coalition’s mission is to ensure that technology and social media work to better support democracy and human rights globally. Thus, responding to an obvious need in today’s digital age. The Design...
Civil Rights Defenders and RFSL welcome the invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to finally address impunity for serious human rights violations and abuses in Chechnya. The decision to invoke the O...
In 2015, Shabnam Khudoydodova, a human rights defender from Tajikistan, was targeted by Tajik authorities in retaliation for her political activism online. With the support of Civil Rights Defenders E...
Voices from Queerfest: Close-up with Bella Rapoport, journalist and Queerfest visitor. “The most important thing about Queerfest is that I can be amongst the people that I feel comfortable with. I kno...
Voices from Queerfest: Close-up with Kris Jashina, visitor at the 2018 Queerfest. “Queerfest for me is a space where the understanding of identity and culture is in focus. Importantly, it is a place w...
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