On 17 September the seventh International Festival of Queer Culture kicks off in St. Petersburg, Russia. Running until 27 September, the festival is a unique human rights event created to develop open...
The Swedish summer has been a veritable downpour, raining almost every day. However the clouds cleared on 1 August 2015 as hundreds of thousands lined the street to welcome the endless themed floats a...
Today, 4 August, is celebrated as the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society in Belarus. It is all the more important as the human rights landscape in Belarus has not improved, having been...
On 13 April, 2015 three unidentified men sprayed asphyxiating gas into the office of our partner Maximum an LGBT organisation based in Murmansk, Russia injuring two individuals. There has been a histo...
On 16 January, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Civil Rights Defenders long-term partner Committee against Torture (CAT) to the register of “foreign agents”. CAT is widely respected f...
On 28 December, 2014 the Police of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina forcibly entered the premises of Klix-ba, one of the most influential web portals based out of Sarajevo. According to ...
The Russian Ministry of Justice entered Civil Rights Defenders’ long-term partner ’Rakurs’ into the register of ’foreign agents’ on 15 December this year. Rakurs is the first LGBT organisation t...
The office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny, Chechnya, was destroyed by an arson attack on 13 December 2014. The following day Chechen police raided the apartment of JMG employees confiscatin...
Five years ago Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender working in Chechnya was brutally murdered for her human rights work. Although the Russian authorities have repeatedly guaranteed to...
17 May, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), is celebrated all over the world. On this important day Civil Rights Defenders is taking action by participating in a demonst...
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