News & statements

7/11/10
Uzbekistan: A briefing note to the EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights on "Repression and Exploitation of Farmers and Rural Communities in Uzbekistan"
Read more » 7/6/10
Open letter to the Belgian EU presidency: Action needed to ensure protection of endangered Kyrgyz human rights defenders
Read more » 6/18/10
Appeal to the EU: Use human rights dialogue with Turkmenistan as opportunity to insist on end to intimidation and harassment of civil society
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News & statements

7/11/10
Uzbekistan: A briefing note to the EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights on "Repression and Exploitation of Farmers and Rural Communities in Uzbekistan"
Read more » 7/6/10
Open letter to the Belgian EU presidency: Action needed to ensure protection of endangered Kyrgyz human rights defenders
Read more » 6/18/10
Appeal to the EU: Use human rights dialogue with Turkmenistan as opportunity to insist on end to intimidation and harassment of civil society
Read more »

Publications

IPHR recommends the following reports:

-- Human Rights Center in Tajikistan(July 2010): Legal Relations in the Area of Family and Marital Matters in Tajikistan: Problems and Perspectives.
Summary available here as Word or as PDF
Full report (in Russian, unedited by IPHR) available here.   

The report highlights and analyzes problems and perspectives relating to legal aspects of family-marital relations in Tajikistan. It is based on information about concerns raised by women who, in the course of 2009, turned to one of six free legal aid clinics operated by the Human Rights Center and other Tajik NGOs in different parts of Tajikistan. This document summarizes major issues that are covered by the report, all of which would benefit from further investigation and analysis with a view to elaborating measures needed to address existing problems.  

-- Helsinki Association of Armenia: Annual Report 2008 on Human Rights in the Republic of Armenia.

Availabe here as Word

The report provides an overview of human rights developments in Armenia in the course of 2008.

-- Helsinki Association of Armenia: Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in the Republic of Armenia, September 2008. Available here as Word or PDF.

The report examines the implementation of international standards on torture and ill-treatment in Armenia, highlighting major concerns with respect to legislation and practice. It is based on information gathered by the Armenian Helsinki Association in its work (a central part of which is legal assistance to victims of abuse) during the period April 2007-April 2008.

-- Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) and Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF): Control and Punishment: Human Rights Implications of Russian Legislation on NGOs, February 2008. Available here as PDF.

The 32-page report examines the impact of the so-called Russian NGO law, which introduced significant changes to existing legislation on NGOs when it entered into force in April 2006, and which has become a tool of repression against civil society in Russia. The report was written by an IPHR consultant and reviewed and partly edited by MHG staff. It is largely based on information from the MHG and other Russian NGOs.

A press release on the report is available here.