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...
AzerbaijanEventsMay 2016
Azerbaijan: Brussels event to celebrate journalist’s release and call for the release of other...
Update on 25 May 2016: We are happy and relieved that Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismaiylova has now been released from prison! She was released...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2018
Justice under threat in Azerbaijan as Bar Association bans yet more independent lawyers
On 23 April 2018 the Azerbaijan Bar Association announced its decision to temporarily suspend the licenses of two prominent Azerbaijani lawyers - Asabali Mustafayev...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2014
No more ‘business as usual’ for Azerbaijan
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...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative requires significant reforms from Azerbaijan
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 AlertsNovember 2017
Azerbaijan: Open letter to EU member state heads and leaders ahead of Aliyev’s Brussels...
A coalition of 37 human rights NGOs has sent a letter to the EU member state heads and EU leaders ahead of Azerbaijani President...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2016
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
On World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2016, Azerbaijan’s independent media is under greater attack than ever before. The undersigned members of the Sport...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: Rasul Jafarov on human rights, his arrest and love for his...
Meet Rasul Jafarov, a lawyer and a leading human rights defender from #Azerbaijan. He is the first to tell his story for #meetyourdefender campaign.
https://youtu.be/rItz-7wXo1I
Rasul's...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Azerbaijan: Arif Yunus transferred to house arrest – Renewed call for the unconditional release...
We -- members of the Civic Solidarity Platform -- were relieved to learn that one of Azerbaijan’s most well-known political prisoners, Arif Yunus, has...
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...