The Former Soviet Union

The Former Soviet Union

 At its session in Geneva this week, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will examine the situation of children in...

On the basis of information provided by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Nota Bene, the CIVICUS Monitor - an initiative of the...

A new report, “When God Becomes The Weapon”,  provides  a detailed, unsettling first-hand account of religiously motivated persecution in rebel-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine....

The CIVICUS Monitor, an initiative aimed at tracking civic space worldwide has posted the following new update about the situation in Kazakhstan on the...

International Partnership for Human Rights, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee are concerned about the prison sentence handed down to Kazakhstani...

On 3 June 2014, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Amnesty International are organizing a roundtable discussion in Brussels on the topic: “The...

The second issue of the e-newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan together with the Helsinki Foundation for...

On 30 June 2015, Kazakhstani, Kostanay-based lawyer Bulat Baytyakov was convicted on criminal defamation charges and sentenced to one year of restricted freedom because...

For a series of recent EU advocacy meetings in Brussels, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and partners prepared brief overviews of current concerns...

Journalists’ rights advocate Ramazan Yesergepov was viciously attacked in Kazakhstan on 14 May 2017 as he was on his way to the capital, Astana...