Campaigns & Updates

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.

KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2023

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...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2023

IPHR is looking for a new colleague for its legal team to work as a Junior Legal Officer responsible for implementing selected projects with...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2023

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...
Statements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2023

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...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2022

IPHR is recruiting a new colleague to work as a project assistant responsible for implementing selected projects with our partners in Ukraine. The post...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2022

This week, Charles Michel, President of the European Council – which is comprised of the heads of the EU Member States – will visit...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2022

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...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2022

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...
Ukraine OSINTUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2022

IPHR is recruiting an open source researcher to join our team investigating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious human rights abuses being...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2022

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...
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2018

KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2018

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...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2018

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

IPHR is recruiting a new colleague to work as Project Officer responsible for implementing selected projects and ensuring a close coordination with our partners...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2018

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...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2018

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

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...
RussiaUkraineCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2018

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...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2018

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...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2018

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...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2018

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...
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2017

AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2017

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...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2017

A coalition of 37 human rights NGOs has sent a letter to the EU member state heads and EU leaders ahead of Azerbaijani President...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2017

The Coalition for Democratic Renewal (CDR) is a global initiative of a group of intellectuals, activists, and politicians, concerned with the expansion of power...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2017

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...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2017

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...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2017

In a joint letter, International Partnership for Human Rights, Fair Trials, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2017

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined over 20 other human rights NGOs in appealing to the Georgian Prime Minister over the case...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2017

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) learnt with great sadness that Uzbekistani human rights lawyer Polina Braunerg died in hospital today after suffering a...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2017

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...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2017

The European Union is financing a new project entitled “Coordinated civil society action to monitor the implementation of international and national human rights obligations...
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2016

GeorgiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2016

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

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has launched a new campaign in support of political prisoner Ilkin Rustamzada in Azerbaijan. We invite you to...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined 17 other NGOs in welcoming the decision by the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016

Together with 17 other NGOs, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has sent an open letter to the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016

A new newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and International Partnership...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2016

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...
Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2016

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has signed on to the following joint appeal issued by 26 NGOs in support of Bahraini human rights...
Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2016

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined other NGOs in expressing concern about the recent arrests of three human rights defenders and journalists...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanUzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2016

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2016

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...
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2015

Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2015

RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2015

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis is launching a new campaign called “Faces of Faith”, which...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2015

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined several other human rights NGOs in making the following statement about imprisoned Uzbekistani human rights defender...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2015

Last week, an appeal court changed the prison sentences against Azerbaijani human rights and peace advocates Leyla and Arif Yunus into suspended sentences and...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2015

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...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2015

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2015

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,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2015

Since the project “Action for Freedom from Torture” started in December 2013, the coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2015

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2015

Today the NGO coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium), ...
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2014

ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2014

We would like to inform our readers that a new resource feature has been added to our website. This feature provides links to UN,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2014

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...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2014

The NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan together with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR, Poland) and International Partnership for...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2014

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2014

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,...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2014

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,...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2014

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...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2014

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...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2014

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...
UkraineCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2014

Below International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is sharing a civil society monitoring update about the current worrisome situation in Ukraine, containing information on...
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2013

ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2013

MEPs are being asked to pledge their commitment for human rights ahead of the 2014 European Parliament elections. The Human Rights and Democracy Network...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2013

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...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2013

A leading NGO is spearheading mounting calls for EU foreign affairs supremo Catherine Ashton to raise public awareness of an "unprecedented attack" on civil...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2013

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...
Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2013

International Partnership for Human Rights has joined nearly 40 other NGOs in calling on the European Union to take a stand against mass surveillance...
BelarusCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2013

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) wishes to express its solidarity with human rights defenders from Belarus and urge again the Belarus authorities to...
Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2013

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined a petition to EU leaders to stop mass surveillance. The petition has been initiated by Index...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2013

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...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2013

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...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2013

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) welcomes the release of Turkmen pop singers Maksat Kakabaev and Murad Ovezov, who were imprisoned in February 2011....
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2012

KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2012

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2012

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2012

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...
KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2012

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...

2011

Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2011

Read the interview with IPHR's director published in the April 2011 newsletter of the Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles.
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJanuary 2011

A coalition of NGO has written an open letter to the president of Kazakhstan about Yevgeniy Zhovtis, director of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJanuary 2011

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

2010

KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2010

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...
Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2010

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...
KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2010

To: Michel Tilemans, Director of the Directorate for Human Rights, Multilateral Relations and Humanitarian Action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2010

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...

2009

Other countriesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2009

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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2009

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,...

2008