TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2016
NGOs urge Tajikistan to follow through in practice on anti-torture measures
The NGO Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), and International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium)...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2020
Trial Monitoring Training in Central Asia: Call for Applications
The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) are calling for applications from human rights defenders, activists and practitioners...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
The danger of speaking out – recent trends in Central Asia
The following written statement has been prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR, Belgium); Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2017
Tracking civic space in Central Asia
We are happy to announce that we have begun cooperating with the global civil society alliance CIVICUS on an initiative called the CIVICUS Monitor,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2014
Local and international civil society organizations call on Central Asian states to end impunity...
Issued by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; Turkmenistan's Independent Lawyers Association; Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights; the International Human...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2016
Statement by Civic Solidarity Platform members on threats against Kyrgyz human rights defenders Tolekan...
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) and other human rights NGOs and defenders are seriously concerned about threats received by leading Kyrgyz...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2015
Torture still widespread in Tajikistan 20 years after the country acceded to anti-torture treaty
Statement by the coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium),...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
Raising concerns about torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at the 2015 OSCE Human...
At this year’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw, representatives of the coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation...
Statements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersApril 2017
Together for human rights: IPHR releases report about its 2016 activities
"Today, more than ever, it is important to stand up for human rights as these universal principles and those defending them are coming increasingly...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2012
Kazakhstan: Sought extremism bans threaten to eliminate political pluralism
Brussels, Almaty 22 November 2012. The initiative to have two prominent opposition groups and leading opposition media outlets banned on vague “extremism” allegations signals...