Anna Politkovskaya worked as a journalist at the investigative paper Novaya Gazeta and was internationally famous for her reports about human rights abuses in warn-torn Chechnya. On 7 October 2006 she...
Civil Rights Defenders is delighted to support the 8th International Queer Festival – “QueerFest 2016” —which began yesterday in St. Petersburg and will run until September 25. The Festival aims to pr...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction of Zhalaudi Geriev, a reporter with the Russian news site Caucasian Knot, for three years imprisonment for possession of narcotics. According to his lawy...
This week, thousands of people gather in the capital of Sweden to take a positive stance against discrimination toward LGBT people, and to celebrate dignity, equality, diversity and human rights. Whil...
The 2016 edition of Time to Act was released in connection with Civil Rights Defenders’ annual conference, Defenders’ Days – Empowering Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The magazine gives an overview o...
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....
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