KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMay 2017
Shrinking space for civil society in pre-election Kyrgyzstan
With growing tensions between pro-presidential and opposition forces ahead of the autumn 2017 presidential elections, the space for free speech and civil society engagement...
AzerbaijanRussiaStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2014
Statement to OSCE conference: Stop muzzling human rights groups & advocates in Russia and...
Statement by members of the Civic Solidarity Platform to 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Working sessions 2 and 3, Tuesday 23 September 2014:...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
EU: Insist on end to reprisals against critical voices in pre-election Kyrgyzstan
Today EU-Kyrgyzstan human rights talks are scheduled to take place in Brussels. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) urges the EU to address the...
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...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
The UN Committee against Torture examines the situation in Turkmenistan
At its current session in Geneva, on 21-22 November 2016, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will examine the situation in Turkmenistan. The Committee...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2015
Fair trial for Azerbaijan’s prisoners of conscience
In 2014, Azerbaijani authorities arrested, convicted or imprisoned at least 34 journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders and civil society activists. The arguments of government...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
OSCE HDIM Statement: Torture and ill-treatment in Central Asia
The Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, established by political emigres in...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2011
Contribution to OSCE Review Meeting: Civil society under pressure in Central Asia
Twenty years after the Soviet Union dissolved and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gained independence, civil society remains under serious pressure in these countries. In...
RussiaUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2016
Russian citizen at risk of torture in Uzbekistan
Thirty-four-year-old Bakhtiyor Takhirzhanovich Khudayberdiev has been held in detention in the basement of the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB) building in Tashkent on charges...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2010
Statement by human rights NGOs to OSCE Review Conference on challenges faced by human...
30 September 2010. The International Partnership for Human Rights (Brussels), the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (Sofia), Civil Rights Defenders (Stockholm), the Moscow Helsinki Group (Moscow),...