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This section features open letters, campaign updates, newsletters and other alerts related to the work of International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners. For information on events, go here.

In January 2022, thousands of people gathered across Kazakhstan demanding social and political change in predominantly peaceful protests. In response to that, President Kassym-Jomart...

IPHR is looking for a new colleague for its legal team to work as a Junior Legal Officer responsible for implementing selected projects with...

This week Charles Michel, President of the European Council, will attend a high-level meeting with the heads of the Central Asian States, which will...

Since October, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has been undertaking research aimed at improving long-term support to human rights defenders (HRDs) living in...

IPHR is recruiting a new colleague to work as a project assistant responsible for implementing selected projects with our partners in Ukraine. The post...

On 11-12 October 2022, the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at its...

IPHR is looking for an intern to join our team in Brussels. Internships are paid, either full- or part-time, for a duration of 3...

IPHR is recruiting an open source researcher to join our team investigating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious human rights abuses being...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is concerned that the Kazakhstani NGO Ar.Rukh.Khak has been subjected to pressure in relation to its efforts to...

Ahead of the European Union-Kyrgyz Republic Cooperation Council, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Amnesty International, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Watch urge the EU...

On 5 October 2018, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) sent a letter to Federica Mogherini, High...

IPHR is recruiting a new colleague to work as Project Officer responsible for implementing selected projects and ensuring a close coordination with our partners...

On 5 October 2018, International Partnership for Human Rights and Association for Human Rights in Central Asia wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron asking him...

On 17 July 2018, an ethnic Ingush, Aslan Yandiev was extradited from Slovakia to Russian Federation. Amnesty International, the Human Rights League and International...

Emmanuel MACRON Président de la République française Palais de l'Elysée 55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris Brussels, Baku, 18 July 2018   Dear President Macron, We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned at...

President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Trump, We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, join PEN America in urging you...

In cooperation with IPHR partner, MEMORIAL Human Rights Centre Russia, the Greens/EFA group of the European Parliament prepared a map of Russia to draw attention...

More than 48 cultural and human rights organizations, call upon the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Batman to drop charges immediately against filmmakers Çayan Demirel...

The Committee against Torture (CAT) will review Tajikistan’s third periodic report on the implementation of the country’s commitments as a party to the Convention...

Azerbaijan: Civil society appeal to French President Emmanuel Macron on energy investments. Dear President Macron: We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about the...

A coalition of 37 human rights NGOs has sent a letter to the EU member state heads and EU leaders ahead of Azerbaijani President...

The Coalition for Democratic Renewal (CDR) is a global initiative of a group of intellectuals, activists, and politicians, concerned with the expansion of power...

Thirty-three human rights NGOs from across Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America, as well as 13 human rights defenders from Azerbaijan have...

Within the framework of an EU-funded human rights project, the Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan is implementing the campaign "I...

In a joint letter, International Partnership for Human Rights, Fair Trials, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined over 20 other human rights NGOs in appealing to the Georgian Prime Minister over the case...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) learnt with great sadness that Uzbekistani human rights lawyer Polina Braunerg died in hospital today after suffering a...

On 10 May 2017, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein will arrive in Uzbekistan for a two-day visit. This...

The European Union is financing a new project entitled “Coordinated civil society action to monitor the implementation of international and national human rights obligations...

When monitoring the parliamentary elections held in Georgia on 8 October 2016, three representatives of an international NGO election observation mission deployed by the...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has launched a new campaign in support of political prisoner Ilkin Rustamzada in Azerbaijan. We invite you to...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined 17 other NGOs in welcoming the decision by the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...

Together with 17 other NGOs, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has sent an open letter to the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency...

A new newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and International Partnership...

The OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) is Europe's largest annual human rights conference. The 2016 HDIM is taking place in Warsaw on 19-30...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has signed on to the following joint appeal issued by 26 NGOs in support of Bahraini human rights...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined other NGOs in expressing concern about the recent arrests of three human rights defenders and journalists...

Participate in our quick online action to support victims of torture in Central Asia and share the action with your friends To mark this year’s...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has written to Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General and Kazakhstan’s ambassador in Belgium about the case of torture victim Rasim...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis is launching a new campaign called “Faces of Faith”, which...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined several other human rights NGOs in making the following statement about imprisoned Uzbekistani human rights defender...

Last week, an appeal court changed the prison sentences against Azerbaijani human rights and peace advocates Leyla and Arif Yunus into suspended sentences and...

The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) is launching a year-long campaign: Stand 4 Human Rights Defenders. HRDN is an informal group of 48...

At this year’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw representatives of the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Helsinki Foundation...

Seven human rights NGOs have sent an open letter to Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General, calling on him to ensure that a recent case of intimidation,...

Since the project “Action for Freedom from Torture” started in December 2013, the coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation...

In a letter to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, 95 lawyers from 24 countries call for the immediate and unconditional release of their colleague, human...

Today the NGO coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium), ...

We would like to inform our readers that a new resource feature has been added to our website. This feature provides links to UN,...

The second issue of the e-newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan together with the Helsinki Foundation for...

The NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan together with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR, Poland) and International Partnership for...

BRUSSELS -- November 11, Azerbaijan’s six-month chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe’s top human rights body, comes to...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev is scheduled to visit Brussels this week and to meet with EU Commission President Manuel Barroso. In view of this,...

The following letter was sent today to a number of EU embassies in Azerbaijan by IPHR and other members of the Civic Solidarity Platform: Brussels,...

In the recent period, Tajikistani authorities have carried out a series of raids in the fight against so-called crimes against morality. These raids give...

Open Letter to Lieutenant-General Radjabali Rahmonali, Commander-in-Chief of Border Guards under the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan calls for an end to...

This interview with IPHR’s director was published at the website of Droit-Inc Québec on 12 May 2014. Available in French only. La voix des Hommes Par...

Below International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is sharing a civil society monitoring update about the current worrisome situation in Ukraine, containing information on...

MEPs are being asked to pledge their commitment for human rights ahead of the 2014 European Parliament elections. The Human Rights and Democracy Network...

A delegation of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are visiting Uzbekistan on 28-29 October 2013 on the occasion of a meeting with Uzbek...

A leading NGO is spearheading mounting calls for EU foreign affairs supremo Catherine Ashton to raise public awareness of an "unprecedented attack" on civil...

International Partnership for Human Rights is coordinating a Civil Solidarity Platform initiative to monitor trials against NGOs in cases initiated under the 2012 "foreign agents" law...

International Partnership for Human Rights has joined nearly 40 other NGOs in calling on the European Union to take a stand against mass surveillance...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) wishes to express its solidarity with human rights defenders from Belarus and urge again the Belarus authorities to...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined a petition to EU leaders to stop mass surveillance. The petition has been initiated by Index...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is relieved that a critic of Turkmenistan's government has been released after being focibly held in a drug...

Jennifer Lopez's recent appearance at the birthday party of Turkmenistan's president not only legitimizes a corrupt and authoritarian regime, but damages her image as...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) welcomes the release of Turkmen pop singers Maksat Kakabaev and Murad Ovezov, who were imprisoned in February 2011....

To: President of Kazakhstan Nursultant Nazarbaev, fax number: + 7(7172) 74 55 24 Copy: General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan, fax number: + (7172) 71 26 50 Brussels, 27...

28 April 2012 To: President Nursultan Nazarbaev Minister of Foreign Affairs Erzhan Kazykhanov Minister of Internal Affairs Kalmuhanbed Kasimov General Prosecutor Askhat Daulbaev Speaker of the Senate Kairat Mami Speaker of...

17 February 2012. The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) welcomes the long-awaited release from prison of Kazakhstani human rights defender Yevgeni Zhovtis. “It...

IPHR has co-signed letters on behalf of Mr. Azimjon Askarov, a Kyrgyz human rights defender, to Mr. Almazbek Atambaev, President of Kyrgyzstan; Ms. Catherine...

Read the interview with IPHR's director published in the April 2011 newsletter of the Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles.

A coalition of NGO has written an open letter to the president of Kazakhstan about Yevgeniy Zhovtis, director of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human...

Several human rights NGOs sent a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and Gunther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy, in...

To: President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva Cc: Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Zarylbek Rysaliev,General Prosecutor of Kyrgyzstan Kubatbek Baibolov Brussels, 22 October 2010 Dear Madam President, I...

To: Members of the European Parliament 10 September 2010 Dear Member of the European Parliament, The organisations that are signatories of this letter wish to draw your...

To: Michel Tilemans, Director of the Directorate for Human Rights, Multilateral Relations and Humanitarian Action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and...

Brussels, 23 April 2010 Dear Mr. General Prosecutor I’m writing to you on behalf of the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) with regard to the...

Your Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa, On behalf of International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), a Brussels-based human rights organization, I would like to...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. M.J.M. Verhagen P.O. Box 20061 2500 EB  The Hague 14 September 2009 Re: Conviction of Human Rights Defender Yevgeni Zhovtis in Kazakhstan Dear Mr. Verhagen, Hivos,...