TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2022
Tajikistan: Human rights defenders and journalists sentenced to long prison terms on politically motivated...
“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...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2022
Kyrgyzstan: ‘’Foreign agents’’ style draft law poses new serious threat to civil society groups
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) supports calls by local NGOs to members of Kyrgyzstan’s parliament to reject a repressive and stigmatising draft law...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2023
EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue: NGO priorities
A new human rights-focused dialogue between the EU and Kazakhstan’s government is scheduled to take place in Brussels on 9 March 2023. The dialogue...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
Forced evictions in Uzbekistan: families at risk. Case of Olga Abdullayeva
Unlawful forced evictions have formed a widespread pattern of human rights violations in Uzbekistan for many years, depriving thousands of people of their property...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
Tajikistan sinks to worst rating in new global report on civic freedoms
Tajikistan downgraded from ‘repressed’ to ‘closed’
Authorities suppress protests in GBAO region, through excessive and lethal force
A widening crackdown on dissenting voices,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
Central Asia: Global report documents alarming civic space trends
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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2023
“We don’t even cry anymore”. Torture, ill-treatment and impunity in Kazakhstan in connection with...
This joint report by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (KIBHR), and Kazakhstan’s...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2022
Uzbekistan: Human rights activist Aziz Yusupov on trial on spurious charges
The trial of Aziz Yusupov, an Uzbek human rights activist, independent journalist and former political prisoner from the city of Ferghana in Uzbekistan, is...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersApril 2023
Joint NGO Submission to the 76th Session of the UN Committee Against Torture on...
The NGO Coalition of Kazakhstan against Torture, International Partnership for Human Rights, and the World Organization Against Torture submitted a report ahead of the...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2022
Kyrgyzstan: Corruption-busting journalist deported to Russia
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) was shocked to learn of today’s decision by a court in Kyrgyzstan to deport corruption-whistle blower Bolot Temirov...