Covid-19

As part of our efforts to increase respect for human rights in local communities in the region, Civil Rights Defenders has supported the production of four country-based researches...

During the Seventh Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe, Civil Rights Defenders, together with the Aire Centre, released the Covid-19 and the Impact on Human Rights: An overview of relevan...

Civil Rights Defenders as part of the 2020 Regional Advocacy Network is organising a series of online panel discussions on ‘The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the human rights of the people d...

On 13 – 14 October, Civil Rights Defenders organised the 2nd Regional Journalists’ Days, focusing on the state of media freedoms in the Western Balkans and Turkey in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Th...

Civil Rights Defenders is organising the second Regional Journalists’ Days on 13-14 October 2020, focusing on the state of media freedoms in the Western Balkans in light of the Covid-19 pandemic...

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...

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...