Reports & Briefing Papers

Reports & Briefing Papers

These are challenging times for human rights in Tajikistan. Freedom of expression, freedom of association, non-discrimination and other fundamental rights and freedoms have recently...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Kyrgyzstan’s human rights record at its upcoming session in Geneva, which starts on 10 October 2022....

Developments seen in Kyrgyzstan during the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted renewed concerns about growing restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms in the country. A...

The Uzbekistani authorities should swiftly decriminalize consensual sex between men, according to the conclusions of a new report published today by the Association for...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its Central Asian partners have begun cooperating with the CIVICUS alliance on the CIVICUS Monitor initiative, which...

In Tajikistan, the recent releases from detention of an independent journalist and a lawyer have provided rays of hope in an otherwise bleak situation....

Torture and ill-treatment continue to be of widespread concern in all Central Asian countries. Methods of torture which were recorded in Central Asia in...

Civil society fears that draft legislation on communications, lawyers and religious practice currently under consideration in Kazakhstan may result in new restrictions on fundamental...

The labour of truth. Myths and Reality: Russia's Attack on a Maternity Hospital in Mariupol as a War Crime is the fourth analytical brief...

Despite commitments by President Jeenbekov’s government to improve the human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, and achieve a more constructive relationship with civil society, human...