This section features information about events that International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners organize or take part in. For information about campaigns and updates on our work, go here.
Other countriesEventsDecember 2022
“Srebrenica. When We, the Killed, Rise”: Drawing Lessons from the Past through Theatre Imagination
On Friday, 16 December IPHR and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a public screening of a theatre play “Srebrenica. When...
Statements & Press ReleasesEventsDecember 2020
Launch of the Human Rights Impact Hub and call for applications
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is pleased to announce the launch of the Human Rights Impact Hub. The hub is designed to provide...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
Uzbekistan: Abolish all travel restrictions on former political prisoners!
Joint written statement for 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working Session 17: Fundamental freedoms II, including: Freedom of movement, 21 September 2017
In August...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
OSCE HDIM Statement: Torture and ill-treatment in Central Asia
The Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, established by political emigres in...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
The danger of speaking out – recent trends in Central Asia
The following written statement has been prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR, Belgium); Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of...
Statements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
Human rights and justice advocates at serious risk in the OSCE region – An...
Over 40 members of the Civic Solidarity Platform, a network of human rights NGOs from Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America, have...
AzerbaijanEventsAugust 2017
Upcoming event: Civil society in cyber space
Together with the Permanent Representation of Netherlands to the EU and the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU (under the Estonian Presidency of...
AzerbaijanRussiaOther countriesEventsApril 2017
Upcoming event: Challenging the legitimacy of the Council of Europe
If you would like to attend the side-event, you are kindly requested to register in advance at the address maryna.zastavna@iphronline.org. Welcome!
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsMarch 2017
Time to turn the tide and end repression of Central Asia’s civil society
We, the undersigning human rights NGOs, are deeply concerned about the serious and deteriorating situation for civil society in Central Asia and call for...
Statements & Press ReleasesEventsDecember 2016
Strong support for Hamburg declaration on human rights defenders
The problem of shrinking civil society space has dangerous implications for comprehensive security in the OSCE region, concluded the participants of the 2016 Parallel...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
Uzbekistan: Abolish all travel restrictions on former political prisoners!
Joint written statement for 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working Session 17: Fundamental freedoms II, including: Freedom of movement, 21 September 2017
In August...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
OSCE HDIM Statement: Torture and ill-treatment in Central Asia
The Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, established by political emigres in...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
The danger of speaking out – recent trends in Central Asia
The following written statement has been prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR, Belgium); Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of...
Statements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
Human rights and justice advocates at serious risk in the OSCE region – An...
Over 40 members of the Civic Solidarity Platform, a network of human rights NGOs from Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America, have...
AzerbaijanEventsAugust 2017
Upcoming event: Civil society in cyber space
Together with the Permanent Representation of Netherlands to the EU and the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU (under the Estonian Presidency of...
AzerbaijanRussiaOther countriesEventsApril 2017
Upcoming event: Challenging the legitimacy of the Council of Europe
If you would like to attend the side-event, you are kindly requested to register in advance at the address maryna.zastavna@iphronline.org. Welcome!
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsMarch 2017
Time to turn the tide and end repression of Central Asia’s civil society
We, the undersigning human rights NGOs, are deeply concerned about the serious and deteriorating situation for civil society in Central Asia and call for...
Statements & Press ReleasesEventsDecember 2016
Strong support for Hamburg declaration on human rights defenders
The problem of shrinking civil society space has dangerous implications for comprehensive security in the OSCE region, concluded the participants of the 2016 Parallel...
UkraineEventsNovember 2016
Upcoming Hague event: The role of the ICC in promoting accountability in Ukraine
On 21 November 2016, an event will be organized in The Hague to discuss the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in promoting...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsOctober 2016
Briefing assessed torture prevention in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
On 23 September 2016, a briefing to discuss the prevention of torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was organized at the OSCE Human Dimension...
AzerbaijanEventsSeptember 2016
Ever shrinking civic space in Azerbaijan: briefing
A briefing organized by Amnesty International, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Institute for Reporter’s Freedom (IRFS) and International Media Support (IMS) at...
UzbekistanEventsSeptember 2016
Human rights in Uzbekistan after Karimov
In the morning of 22 September 2016 International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the International Federation for Human Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsSeptember 2016
Voices from the field: Central Asia 25 years after independence
With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Central Asian states gained independence and set out on a transition process with great...
ArmeniaEventsSeptember 2016
Warsaw event on protests and state reprisals in Armenia
A side event organized by Open Society Foundations Armenia in cooperation with a number of other organizations, including International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)...
ArmeniaEventsSeptember 2016
Armenia: Press conference to launch new mission report on police violence
Today, 8 September 2016, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and local partners held a press conference in Yerevan, Armenia,...
ArmeniaEventsSeptember 2016
Democracy in Armenia: Lost in transition? – Upcoming Brussels event
When? Tuesday, 13 September, 12h30 – 14h00, a light lunch will be served
Where? European Endowment for Democracy, Avenue des Gaulois 29, 1040 Brussels
SPEAKERS
Vardine Grigoryan,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsMay 2016
Central Asia conference: Civil society’s role in torture prevention
Sixty NGO representatives from the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as international human rights groups and representatives from other...
AzerbaijanEventsDecember 2015
Brussels Event: Justice Behind Bars in Azerbaijan
When: Tuesday 19 January 2016, 16.00-17.30 (A welcome coffee will be served)
Where: Open Society European Policy Institute, Rue du Trône 130, 1050 Brussels
International Partnership...
UkraineEventsDecember 2015
European Parliament hearing on the human rights situation in Ukraine
At a hearing on human rights in Ukraine that the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held on 1 December 2015, human rights developments...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaMoldovaUkraineEventsNovember 2015
Speech: Security of human rights defenders in Eastern Partnership countries
On 19-21 November 2015, the Annual Assembly of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum was held in Kyiv, Ukraine. IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour participated...
UkraineEventsOctober 2015
Ukraine: IPHR delegation submits communication on war crimes and crimes against humanity to the...
On 23 October 2015, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) submitted a communication on war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine to the...
UkraineEventsSeptember 2015
Make Law, Not War – event on international crimes in Eastern Ukraine
On Thursday 24 September, IPHR hosted the side event “Make Law, Not War -- Violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Crimes in...
AzerbaijanEventsSeptember 2015
HDIM side-event: Politically motivated persecution in Azerbaijan
"It should have been Khadija Ismayilova speaking to you today,” said IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour when opening the side-event “Politically motivated persecution in Azerbaijan,” which...
AzerbaijanEventsSeptember 2015
Warsaw protest: Release political prisoners in Azerbaijan!
On Thursday 24 September 2015, representatives of International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Sport for Rights network and other human rights organizations...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsSeptember 2015
In the name of stability: Event highlights growing pressure on civil society in Central...
The authorities of Central Asia increasingly use concerns about security and stability as a pretext to curtail fundamental rights and liberties and clamp down...
UkraineEventsJuly 2015
Ukraine: Report on religiously motivated persecution presented at Vienna event
In connection with the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna on 2-3 July 2015, the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) and International Partnership...
GeorgiaEventsJune 2015
Human rights situation in Georgia discussed in Brussels; Ombudsman: “Significant improvements, but many challenges...
At an event co-hosted by International Partnership for Human Rights and the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels last week, Georgian Public Defender...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsDecember 2014
Speech at Council of Europe event: Human rights challenges facing Europe
At its meeting in Paris on 10 December 2014, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesEventsDecember 2014
NGOs call on the OSCE to take action on Ukraine, closing space for civil...
On 2-3 December 2014, civil society organizations from across the OSCE region met in Basel to endorse recommendations to OSCE participating States about to meet in...
AzerbaijanEventsNovember 2014
Brussels demonstration: Freedom for Azerbaijan’s human rights defenders!
Today International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Frontline Defenders held a demonstration in Brussels to demand...
KazakhstanEventsNovember 2014
Kazakhstan before the UN Committee against Torture
On 17 and 18 November 2014, the Committee against Torture (CAT) is due to review Kazakhstan’s compliance with obligations the country committed itself to...
KazakhstanEventsOctober 2014
Kazakhstan up for Universal Periodic Review
This week, on Thursday 30 October 2014, the human rights situation in Kazakhstan will be scrutinized in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review...
UkraineEventsOctober 2014
Briefing: Ukraine – Fighting impunity during times of upheaval
On 24 September 2014, IPHR organized a briefing dedicated to problems of impunity in Ukraine. The event, which was organized as part of an...
UkraineEventsOctober 2014
Briefing: In search of new lives – the situation of internally displaced persons in...
On 1 October 2014, IPHR organized a side-event on the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, in parallel to the annual OSCE...
AzerbaijanKazakhstanKyrgyzstanRussiaTurkmenistanEventsSeptember 2014
Warsaw event: The assault on freedom of association in the post-Soviet region
At a briefing held on 24 September 2014 at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw, human rights defenders from a number...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsSeptember 2014
Statement to OSCE conference: Trends regarding torture and ill-treatment in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Statement to 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working Session 4, Wednesday 24 September 2014: Rule of Law 1
An overview of positive developments and...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanEventsSeptember 2014
OSCE conference: Statements on human rights trends in the post-Soviet region
The annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, the largest annual human rights conference in Europe, will take place in Warsaw on 23 September-3 October...
EventsDecember 2013
Season’s Greetings
Dear Readers and Friends,
We wish you Happy Holidays and a Rewarding New Year 2014!
Light a candle
(lyrics from the Norwegian Christmas song "Tenn lys"...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsDecember 2013
OSCE parallel civil society conference in Kiev
Ahead of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting that took place in Kiev on 5-6 December, representatives of NGOs from across Europe, the former Soviet Union...
AzerbaijanBelarusKazakhstanKyrgyzstanRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2013
Joint statement to OSCE Human Rights Conference: Repressive NGO legislation and practice in the...
2013 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working sessions 8 and 9, specifically selected topic: Freedom of association and assembly
Friday 27 September 2013
Written statement...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsApril 2013
Memorandum of Understanding adopted by Central Asian human rights NGOs
With support of international NGO partners, more than a dozen human rights NGOs from Central Asia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The Memorandum...
EventsApril 2013
We are turning five!
Today International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is celebrating its five year anniversary. On 9 April 2008, our organisation was registered as a not-for-profit...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersEventsFebruary 2013
Discrimination against visual minorities, Roma, migrants and indigenous peoples: Russia’s record before the United...
Russia’s record of racial discrimination is up for review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On Thursday 14 and Friday...
BelarusKazakhstanRussiaTurkmenistanUzbekistanOther countriesEventsDecember 2012
Speech at EU-NGO Forum: Shrinking space for civil society
The following speech was delivered by IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour at the 14th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights, held in Brussels on 6-7 December...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsNovember 2012
Message on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
Today is International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) would like to use this opportunity to send a message...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsSeptember 2012
IPHR voices concerns about internet restrictions at OSCE Human Rights Conference
2012 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Written statement to Working Session 1 (Fundamental Freedoms I),
Monday 24 September 2012:
Restrictions of internet freedoms
In a 2004...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2012
Central Asia: Statements for OSCE Human Rights Review Meeting
Brussels 18 September 2012. International Partnership for Human Rights, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and their Central Asian partners have prepared a set of statements...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsJune 2012
Round table on EU and human rights in Central Asia today!
IPHR and partners are organizing a round table at the European Parliament today 20 June 2012, to discuss EU human rights action in Central...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsJune 2012
EU-Central Asia: Placing Human Rights at the Heart of EU Action
This month it is five years since the EU adopted its Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia. The Strategy identifies human rights...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsMarch 2012
UN review to spotlight Turkmenistan’s dire human rights record
Vienna, Brussels, New York 14 March 2012. The upcoming review of Turkmenistan by a key United Nations human rights body is expected to spotlight...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsDecember 2011
OSCE Civil Society Conference: Making commitments come true
On 4-5 December 2011, civil society representatives from across Europe, USA and the former Soviet Union met for a Parallel OSCE Conference in Vilnius,...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2011
Contribution to OSCE Review Meeting: Civil society under pressure in Central Asia
Twenty years after the Soviet Union dissolved and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gained independence, civil society remains under serious pressure in these countries. In...
Other countriesEventsSeptember 2011
IPHR, EuroArab Forum and EPD Event
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the EuroArab Forum and European Partnership for Democracy are happy to invite you to a discussion on the...
BelarusEventsSeptember 2011
The criminal case against Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatsky – Press conference
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Human Rights Centre "Viasna"
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)
Invite you to a press...
Other countriesEventsSeptember 2011
IPHR – EuroArab Forum open exchange
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the EuroArab Forum are happy to invite you to an open exchange on:
"The Syria Revolution: who speaks...
RussiaEventsMay 2011
IPHR Director participates in Moscow Helsinki Group 35th Anniversary
Helsinki movement: a source of inspiration, solidarity and strength
By Brigitte Dufour, IPHR Director
It is an honour for me to take part in the 35th...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsOctober 2010
Kyrgyzstan: Joint NGO statement highlights problems of arbitrary detentions, police brutality, extortion, unfair trials...
1 October 2010. The Human Rights Center "Citizens against Corruption" (Kyrgyzstan), the Fiery Hearts Club (France) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium)...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2010
Statement by human rights NGOs to OSCE Review Conference on challenges faced by human...
30 September 2010. The International Partnership for Human Rights (Brussels), the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (Sofia), Civil Rights Defenders (Stockholm), the Moscow Helsinki Group (Moscow),...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsMarch 2010
2010 One World International Human Rights Awards announced – IPHR director on Jury
The 12th One World International Human Rights Film Festival was held between 10 and 18 March 2010 in Prague, the Czech Republic. IPHR director...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2009
Appeal to the OSCE participating States: Address the case of convicted Kazakh human rights...
Brussels and The Hague, 9 September 2009. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) are urging the OSCE to react strongly to the...