12 Human Rights Groups Call for Journalist’s, Others’ Immediate Release (Bishkek, February 12, 2018) – Uzbek authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial, and independent investigation into the all...
Last weekend, between 2-4 February, the Moscow Community Center for LGBT Initiatives hosted the first ever queer art festival in Moscow to celebrate open-mindedness and equality. Supported by Civil Ri...
Two unidentified men in masks have broken into and torched the Nazran office of Russian human rights organisation Memorial. The attack comes only a week after the arrest of Oyub Titiev, leader of the ...
Around the world, lawyers’ work is becoming increasingly difficult as they face retaliation, harassment and abuse as a result of performing their professional duties representing human rights defender...
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 ...
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