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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2011
Kazakhstan: Civil society groups put hope in UN body to highlight human rights violations...
Geneva, Brussels, The Hague, Almaty 12 July 2011. A UN review of Kazakhstan this week should address problematic practices that stifle dissent and limit...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2011
Kazakhstan: Briefing paper for UN human rights review
Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR), International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) have...
KazakhstanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2011
Uzbekistan: EU should request protection of the rights of forcibly returned individuals
Tashkent, Almaty, Brussels and The Hague, 23 June 2011. On the eve of this year’s EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue, which will take place in...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJanuary 2011
Kazakhstan: Open Letter about Yevgeniy Zhovtis
A coalition of NGO has written an open letter to the president of Kazakhstan about Yevgeniy Zhovtis, director of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2010
A joint report on the fight against trafficking in persons in Kazakhstan
Brussels 23 November 2010. The International Legal Initiative (Almaty), the Women's Resource Centre (Shymkant) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (Brussels) today released a report that analyzes...
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),...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2010
Open letter regarding Kazakhstani Supreme Court hearing on the admissibility of the case of...
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...
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...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsSeptember 2009
Letter to the Netherlands minister of foreign affairs on the conviction of human rights...
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,...