Five years after the sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), the Syrian Archive, the Open Society Justice Initiative, and Civil Rights Defenders...
In previous report, we provided summaries of the hearings with Witness 16, 23 and 24, which were held on 9, 10 and 15 March. In this report we will provide summaries of the hearings with expert witnes...
Defending human rights, democracy, and freedom of expression is particularly important in times of war. But it is also particularly dangerous. During the past weeks of war in Ukraine, we have seen an ...
How do you continue working while your country is being invaded, people are fleeing by the millions and air strikes can rain from the sky at any time? Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Ukrainian reporter in Kyiv, ...
A further armed conflict in Ukraine would be devastating for human rights in both countries. Since Russia illegally occupied Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the situation for human rights, and ci...
Russia occupied Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in the spring of 2014; since then, the persecution of journalists, human rights defenders, and civic activists in the region has increased. The Crimean Tata...
Civil Rights Defenders is now seeking a professional interpretation service to enter a frame agreement to perform simultaneous interpretation English <-> ...
Large protests have erupted in Kazakhstan in recent days. A nation-wide state of emergency has been declared and according to official information, at least 300 people have been injured, and several d...
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Ressa and Dimitry Muratov for their work in protecting freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the ...
In a coordinated attack on Russian civil society, a large number of organisations, individuals and media outlets have been labelled as ‘foreign agents’ today by Russian authorities. Among the targeted...
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