KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016
Obtaining compensation for moral harm sustained through torture: Progress and challenges
A new newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and International Partnership...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
The UN Committee against Torture examines the situation in Turkmenistan
At its current session in Geneva, on 21-22 November 2016, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will examine the situation in Turkmenistan. The Committee...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2016
Uzbekistan: 3 more years for long-held activist
(Brussels, November 4, 2016) – Uzbek authorities should immediately and unconditionally release imprisoned political activist Samandar Kukanov, whose sentence has been arbitrarily extended for...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2016
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
On World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2016, Azerbaijan’s independent media is under greater attack than ever before. The undersigned members of the Sport...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2016
Presentation of monitoring findings on war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Crimea
This week International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) will submit a communication to the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2016
Kazakhstan: Activists on trial over social media posts
Activists Ermek Narymbaev, Serikzhan Mambetalin and Bolatbek Blyalov are currently on trial in Kazakhstan for allegedly “inciting discord” through social media posts. International Partnership...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2016
OSCE HDIM statement: Human rights in Uzbekistan after Karimov
President Karimov’s sudden death in September brought to an end his 27-year long rule which was marked by profound disregard for fundamental rights and...
AzerbaijanEventsMay 2016
Azerbaijan: Brussels event to celebrate journalist’s release and call for the release of other...
Update on 25 May 2016: We are happy and relieved that Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismaiylova has now been released from prison! She was released...
GeorgiaStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
NGO election observers attacked in Georgia
(Brussels, Oslo and Tbilisi, 9 October 2016) During the Georgian parliamentary elections on 8 October 2016 a violent incident occurred in Western Georgia. A...
GeorgiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2016
Georgia: Attack on international election observers must be properly investigated
When monitoring the parliamentary elections held in Georgia on 8 October 2016, three representatives of an international NGO election observation mission deployed by the...