AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2017
Azerbaijan: Rights groups demand justice for tortured journalist
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaijan’s authorities to immediately investigate the case...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2019
EU-Turkmenistan Human Rights Dialogue: Push for implementation of new benchmarks
The annual EU-Turkmenistan Human Rights Dialogue will take place in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on 29 March 2019. The dialogue comes shortly after the European...
ArmeniaStatements & Press ReleasesAugust 2017
Armenia: harassment of lawyers working on high-profile cases
We, the undersigned members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) – a network of human rights NGOs from Europe, the former Soviet Union and...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2015
Azerbaijan: Suspension of sentences of Leyla and Arif Yunus is a welcome step, but...
We -- members of the Civic Solidarity Platform and the Sports For Rights Campaign -- were relieved to learn that one of Azerbaijan’s most...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2014
EU-Kazakhstan human rights talks: Key concerns
This week, on 12 November 2014, a new round of the annual EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue is scheduled to take place in Brussels. International...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2016
Uzbekistan: 3 more years for long-held activist
(Brussels, November 4, 2016) – Uzbek authorities should immediately and unconditionally release imprisoned political activist Samandar Kukanov, whose sentence has been arbitrarily extended for...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersEventsJune 2014
Turkmenistan: UN body to take stock of the state of child rights
With the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child set to begin its review of Turkmenistan today, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR)...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2018
Civil society call on PACE to appoint a Rapporteur to examine the issue of...
Representatives of 42 international and national non-governmental organizations issue the appeal to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to request the...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2008
Appeal to the EU – Demand concrete action to improve the situation of Russian...
Brussels/Moscow, 15 April 2008. On the eve of the new round of EU-Russia consultations on human rights, which will take place in Slovenia on 17...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2017
World Press Freedom Day: Free Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov!
As World Press Freedom Day is celebrated across the globe on May 3, we, the undersigned organizations, cannot forget the untenable price journalists pay...