Human rights organisations in nine EU countries, all members of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) network, are simultaneously filing information requests to their national authorities r...
In early May 2020, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, residents in Thailand’s largely Malay Muslim deep south began reporting targeted mobile network shutdowns. This follows an earlier announcemen...
When a state of emergency was declared in Moldova on 17 March over the coronavirus pandemic, civil society organisations quickly adapted to the new reality. Civil Rights Defenders spoke to two organis...
As a region which experienced some of the harshest measures in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, Civil Rights Defenders has been taking a closer look at the key human rights derogations in the Wester...
At the end of March, Ugandan police officers raided an LGBTI+ shelter in Kyengera a few miles outside of the capital, Kampala. Twenty-three men were arrested and several of them were beaten with canes...
Civil Rights Defenders joins almost fifty organisations in a joint statement on the increased persecution of journalists and civil society actors in Cuba. This persecution has increased since the begi...
As part of the #FreeThePress campaign, Civil Rights Defenders and 192 other press freedom and human rights organisations have written an open letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. ...
On 23 March, the draft law – which could impose restrictions on the constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly – was passed in the parliament and sent to the Senate. A number of human righ...
The Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders – Turkey, of which Civil Rights Defenders has been a member since its inception, has issued a statement regarding the growing targeting of organ...
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a serious threat to people in forced detentions around the world. The Russian Duma recently announced that no prisoners will be amnestied on 9 May – the Victory Day anniver...
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