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...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Sport for Rights refutes PACE statement, highlights unprecedented repression during Azerbaijan’s parliamentary elections
The Sport for Rights campaign refutes the preliminary statement of findings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) monitoring delegation to...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2014
Azerbaijan: Stop pressuring human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband!
The Civic Solidarity Platform, a coalition of over 50 human rights NGOs in Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America, is gravely concerned about the...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2019
Meet your defender: Zohrab Ismayil on unwritten rules, power of the civil society and...
Meet Zohrab Ismayil, civil activist and human rights defender from Azerbaijan. Zohrab's path to civic activism began from journalism. As a journalist, he focused...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2017
Azerbaijan: Rights groups demand justice for tortured journalist
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaijan’s authorities to immediately investigate the case...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2015
Joint letter on EU position on Azerbaijan
This week the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2015
Azerbaijan/EU: Use Official Visit to Free Activists. No more business as usual in the...
(Brussels, February 23, 2015). The European Union special representative for human rights should use his visit to Azerbaijan beginning February 23, 2015, to insist...
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 ReleasesNovember 2017
Azerbaijan: Legislative amendments raise alarm
The Azerbaijani government’s proposed amendments to the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure and the Bar Act were approved by parliament on 31 October...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2019
Open Letter to the Presidium of the Azerbaijani Bar Association
The undersigned organisations condemn the disproportionate disciplinary measures by the Azerbaijani Bar Association against Azerbaijani human rights lawyer Shahla Humbatova on 27 November 2019....