TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2020
Tajikistan: Joint NGO submission under the Committee against Torture’s follow-up procedure
This joint NGO submission summarizes the state of implementation of the recommendations issued by the Committee under the relevant paragraphs and provides case examples where...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2020
Uzbekistan: Joint NGO submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
This report provides information to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) before the examination of Uzbekistan’s fifth periodic report on the country’s...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersAugust 2019
Turkmenistan attacks the credibility of independent news sources and locks up critics
The authorities of Turkmenistan strictly control the dissemination of information about the situation in the country. State media focuses on the supposed well-being of...
Other countriesStatements & Press ReleasesAugust 2019
Yemen: Over 75 organisations call for mandate of Group of Eminent Experts to be...
We, the undersigned more than 75 international, regional and Yemeni CSOs, call for the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to extend and broaden...
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...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2019
Tajikistan: Torture, ill-treatment, the death penalty and the shrinking space for NGOs
International Partnership for Human Rights, the NGO Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) prepared a joint...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2018
Tajikistan: Joint NGO report launched on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On the United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Tajikistani civil society organizations Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesAugust 2018
US/EU: Press Tajikistan to free journalist
Government should respect media freedom
Diplomats and representatives of international organizations should press Tajik authorities to unconditionally set aside the conviction against a respected journalist...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2018
UN Statement on Telegram and restriction to internet freedoms in Russia
In a joint statement to the UN Human Rights Council of 27 June 2018, 52 (XX) civil society organizations raise their concerns about the trend...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersApril 2018
Update on human rights developments in Uzbekistan ahead of its Universal Periodic Review
In May 2018 Uzbekistan’s human rights record will be scrutinized in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a state peer review mechanism...