“Human rights defenders are not the enemy”. Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, 9 December 2022 Helsinki Foundation for...

Johannesburg/Brussels - As the eighth anniversary of the unjust detention of Tajikistan human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov approaches, global civil society alliance CIVICUS and the International Partnership for...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners draw attention to the widening attack on civic space and freedoms seen in Central Asia...

The Tajikistani human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov has spent eight years unjustly in prison. And yet, the authorities are now targeting him again. On...

Tajikistan downgraded from ‘repressed’ to ‘closed’  Authorities suppress protests in GBAO region, through ​​excessive and lethal force A widening crackdown on dissenting voices,...

The CIVICUS Monitor has released its annual, global report People Power Under Attack (PPUA), which examines threats and trends facing civil society across the world in...

In another blow to civil society in Tajikistan, the Independent Center for Human Rights Protection (ICHRP) has been liquidated by court order on spurious...

Oslo, Brussels, Stockholm, Dublin, Warsaw, 24 March 2023 The government of Tajikistan should immediately release independent journalist and human rights defender Khurshed Fozilov and cease...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) regrets the conviction of journalist Khurshed Fozilov in Tajikistan on charges initiated in apparent retaliation for his journalistic...

This week Charles Michel, President of the European Council, will attend a high-level meeting with the heads of the Central Asian States, which will...