KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
A matter of regional concern: Shrinking civil society space in Central Asia
There is a growing trend in Central Asia, in which the authorities curtail fundamental rights and freedoms and clamp down on civil society in...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2017
Kyrgyzstan: Will the new president break with his predecessor’s troubling human rights legacy?
On 24th November 2017, Sooronbay Jeenbekov was inaugurated as Kyrgyzstan’s new president. He follows Almazbek Atambayev who led the country for six years but could...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistanOther countriesEventsDecember 2013
OSCE parallel civil society conference in Kiev
Ahead of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting that took place in Kiev on 5-6 December, representatives of NGOs from across Europe, the former Soviet Union...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2014
Central Asia: New NGO briefing papers on protecting human rights defenders and counteracting torture
Two new briefing notes prepared by IPHR and partner groups highlight challenges facing human rights groups and defenders, as well as problems of torture...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsSeptember 2014
Statement to OSCE conference: Trends regarding torture and ill-treatment in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Statement to 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working Session 4, Wednesday 24 September 2014: Rule of Law 1
An overview of positive developments and...
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...
AzerbaijanKazakhstanKyrgyzstanRussiaTurkmenistanEventsSeptember 2014
Warsaw event: The assault on freedom of association in the post-Soviet region
At a briefing held on 24 September 2014 at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw, human rights defenders from a number...
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...
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...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2015
Address torture in EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue
Brussels 18 May 2015. Torture and ill-treatment including electric shock, suffocation, rape and beatings continue to be widely used in Kyrgyzstan and impunity is...