KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2023
Global report documents erosion of civil society space in Central Asia
The CIVICUS Monitor has released its annual, global report People Power Under Attack (PPUA) 2023, which provides an overview of trends affecting civil society space across...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2023
Kazakhstan: Harsh sentence for opposition party leader shows lack of real political modernisation
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of law (KIBHR) consider the seven-year prison sentence handed...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2023
Azerbaijan: Journalists face spurious smuggling charges
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) condemns the detentions of three journalists associated with the online media outlet Abzas Media in Azerbaijan. They all...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2023
Turkmenistan: Journalist Prevented from Travelling Abroad
Soltan Achilova Planned to Travel to Geneva for Rights Award Ceremony, Meetings
The Turkmenistani authorities’ actions to prevent an independent journalist, Soltan Achilova, from travelling...
RussiaUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2023
New report: When ‘russkiy mir’ comes. War crimes and IHL violations committed by Russian...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) presents a new report, “When ‘russkiy mir’ comes: War crimes and IHL violations committed by Russian armed forces...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2023
EU dialogue with Kyrgyzstan: Raise unprecedented threats to civic freedoms
The EU will hold its annual human rights dialogue with the government of Kyrgyzstan in Brussels this week, at a time when unprecedented threats...
KazakhstanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2023
President Macron urged to raise human rights issues during visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has sent an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of his visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2023
Kazakhstan: Abolish the ‘Foreign Funding’ Register
Nine organizations issue a joint statement on misguided government move
The Kazakhstan government’s deeply flawed and concerning decision to publish a “register of individuals and...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2023
Civic space under attack in Central Asia: NGOs document key trends as region sees...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners draw attention to the widening attack on civic space and freedoms seen in Central Asia...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2023
Civil society demands Tajikistan free human rights lawyer on eighth anniversary of arrest
Johannesburg/Brussels - As the eighth anniversary of the unjust detention of Tajikistan human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov approaches, global civil society alliance CIVICUS and the International Partnership for...