KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Torture in Central Asia: time to break the vicious circle!
One night in July 2018 police officers drove up to Shahboz Ahmadov’s house in the southern Yavan district of Tajikistan and instructed the young...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue: Briefing paper documents civil society concerns
The tenth round of the EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue will take in Brussels on 27 May 2019. A briefing paper prepared for the dialogue...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Some positive civic space developments, but more to be done to keep promises
Despite commitments by President Jeenbekov’s government to improve the human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, and achieve a more constructive relationship with civil society, human...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
NGOs urge Kyrgyzstan to release unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Azimjan Askarov
Bishkek, Brussels, Paris, 12 March 2019: Although the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) ruled in 2016 that 67-year-old human rights defender Azimjan Askarov...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Ongoing surveillance of NGO workers despite presidential assurances on human rights
The Kyrgyzstani authorities committed to improve the human rights situation in the country. On 10th December 2018, when speaking at a conference in the context of the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration...
KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2018
Arbitrary detention of human rights defender Azimjon Askarov in Kyrgyzstan: open letter to EU...
Ahead of the European Union-Kyrgyz Republic Cooperation Council, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Amnesty International, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Watch urge the EU...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2018
Restricted space: ongoing concerns about restrictions on fundamental freedoms in Central Asia
This briefing paper by International Partnership for Human Rights together with Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, based in exile), Restoration of Justice...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2018
Kyrgyzstan: Follow up on promises
This update covers events from 30th April to 15th August 2018 and was prepared by Legal Prosperity Foundation and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) in...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2018
Rights Reframed: Media advocacy mentorship program. Call for applications 2018
New Media Advocacy Project (NMAP) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) invite applications for a 10-month mentorship program "Rights Reframed" designed to...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2018
International Anti-Torture Day: NGOs call on Central Asian governments to end torture
On 26 June, International Day of Support for Victims of Torture, the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human...