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 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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2017
Threats to civic space in Kazakhstan: Freedom of association and expression
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its Central Asian partners are now cooperating with the CIVICUS Monitor, an initiative aimed at tracking civic...
KazakhstanTajikistanTurkmenistanEventsApril 2014
New project launched in support of fundamental rights in Central Asia
As of 1 April 2014, a coalition of three Central Asian NGOs and one European NGO began implementing a new project in support of...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2015
Newsletter: Raising torture concerns at the 2015 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
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...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2015
Torture in Central Asia
Briefing for human rights seminar organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 22-23 October 2015
This...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2018
Kazakhstan: Strikes, arrests and fears of new restrictions on fundamental freedoms
This update covers developments on the freedoms of expression, association and assembly in Kazakhstan from November 2017 to January 2018. International Partnership for Human...
KazakhstanTajikistanEventsFebruary 2016
Central Asia: Training on strategic NGO approaches to communication
Almaty, Brussels, Dushanbe, Warsaw 03 February 2016 – Twenty-six NGO activists of the NGO Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and experienced anti-torture...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2015
Kazakhstan: Draft NGO law signals worsening civil society climate
A vaguely worded Kazakhstani draft law on NGOs may seriously restrict the activities and funding of NGOs in this country, in violation of international...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2014
Central Asia: Joint NGO concerns and recommendations on improving efforts to eradicate torture
Regional Workshop on Implementing Human Dimension Commitments and Enhancing the Role of Civil Society in the Work of the OSCE, Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 20-21 May...