KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2019
Central Asia: Protests crushed, NGOs under pressure and activists intimidated
The space for civil society remains narrow in Central Asia as the authorities of the region restrict freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2016
Kazakhstan: Follow-up to the UN Committee against Torture’s Concluding Observations
The NGO Coalition against Torture in Kazakhstan, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, International Partnership for Human Rights and the World Organisation against Torture submitted...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2020
Kazakhstan: Free civil rights defender Asya Tulesova
Environmental and civic rights defender Asya Tulesova is currently in pre-trial detention facing criminal charges for taking part in a peaceful protest in the...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2014
Statement to OSCE conference: Current threats facing human rights NGOs and defenders in Central...
Statement to 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working sessions 2 and 3, Tuesday 23 September: Fundamental freedoms 1 by the following organizations: Kazakhstan...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2019
Joint NGO letter to the EU’s Federica Mogherini ahead of Central Asia visit
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and five of its partners sent a joint letter to the EU’s High Representative Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2012
Fundamental freedoms under serious threat in Central Asia twenty years after Soviet collapse
Brussels, The Hague, Vienna, Almaty, Tashkent 7 March 2012. A new 36-page report published today by a coalition of five human rights groups from Europe and...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Kazakh human rights lawyer harassed
Yesterday morning Aiman Umarova found the family dog killed in her garden. The killing of her dog is the latest of a series of...
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...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanRussiaTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2015
Newsletter: Shrinking space for NGOs in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
How can human rights defenders respond to an increasingly restrictive environment? International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) conducted interviews with activists from Russia: Natalia...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaTajikistanTurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesCovid-19Reports & Briefing PapersOctober 2020
Central Asia: Civil society monitoring documents growing rights restrictions during Covid-19 pandemic
The global Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in growing restrictions on fundamental rights in Central Asia, as the authorities of the region have limited such...