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...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Tajikistan: Release Gravely Ill Activist
Political Prisoner Says Guards Beat Him, Refused Him Medicine
The Tajik government should immediately and unconditionally release a seriously ill political activist who says he has...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Azerbaijan: 51 political prisoners released during Novruz celebrations
On 16 March 2019, 51 political prisoners were released from prison following a pardon issued by the President of Azerbaijan in relation to the...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Human rights defender Oyub Titiev convicted following unfair and absurd judicial process
Today a court in Chechnya, Russia, sentenced human rights defender Oyub Titiev to four years in prison on trumped-up charges after an unfair trial....
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
NGOs urge Kyrgyzstan to release unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Azimjan Askarov
Bishkek, Brussels, Paris, 12 March 2019: Although the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) ruled in 2016 that 67-year-old human rights defender Azimjan Askarov...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Putting an end to ICC inertia on Ukraine
On March 6, Simon Papuashvili of the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Alexandre Prezanti of Global Diligence LLP filed their fourth communication...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2019
Miscarriage of justice: an update on the ongoing trial of Oyub Titiev
Oyub Titiev, the head of Memorial Human Rights Centre’s Chechnya office, has been in custody since 9 January 2018. He has reiterated his innocence on multiple occasions...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2018
Uzbekistan: Call for Murad Djuraev to be posthumously rehabilitated
Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) and the Uzbekistan-based NGO Restoration of...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2018
Uzbekistan: Stop Harassing Human Rights Defenders
End Surveillance, Ensure Former Prisoners’ Safety
The Uzbekistani authorities should stop harassing human rights activists, including those recently released from prison, and ensure their safety,...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersApril 2019
Tajikistan’s international human rights obligations under scrutiny
This update covers developments relating to civil society and civic freedoms in Tajikistan from November 2018 to February 2019. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) prepared...
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...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2019
Providing information on Uzbekistan to the UN Committee against Torture
IPHR and Association for Human Rights in Central Asia made a joint submission on Uzbekistan to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) to provide input into the Committee’s preparation of the List of Issues that is scheduled to take place in April/May 2019.
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2019
Kazakhstan: Reinforced authoritarianism – Sentencing of opposition activists, surveillance of citizens
Ongoing state surveillance and restrictions on freedoms of information and expression imposed by the authorities continue to be a cause of concern. The government passed a resolution that mandates government agencies to block internet and communications networks in a situation of “state of emergency...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2019
Turkmenistan: the state denies bread lines and suppresses information about crisis
During the reporting period, the economic crisis deepened in Turkmenistan, with residents forced to stand in line to buy bread and other necessities...
UkraineReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2019
Key concerns and recommendations on fundamental rights in Ukraine
Following the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013, Ukraine has undertaken widespread reforms in the areas of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and overall, civil society groups have enjoyed more freedom...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Ongoing surveillance of NGO workers despite presidential assurances on human rights
The Kyrgyzstani authorities committed to improve the human rights situation in the country. On 10th December 2018, when speaking at a conference in the context of the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2018
Tajikistan: Protests and tensions lead to internet restrictions
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) prepared this report as part of its cooperation with the CIVICUS Monitor. It covers developments relating to civil society...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2018
Tajikistan: Joint NGO report launched on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On the United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Tajikistani civil society organizations Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2019
Remove barriers and create an inclusive society in Tajikistan! (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUa2TDzykM
In Tajikistan, most hospitals, schools and government buildings including those where people apply for social security assistance are inaccessible to persons with disabilities. Very...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2019
Meet your defender: Zohrab Ismayil on unwritten rules, power of the civil society and...
Meet Zohrab Ismayil, civil activist and human rights defender from Azerbaijan. Zohrab's path to civic activism began from journalism. As a journalist, he focused...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: Interview with Leyla Mustafayeva
Meet Leyla Mustafayeva, a journalist from Azerbaijan and the wife of investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli. Her husband was kidnapped in Georgia in May 2017...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: Rasul Jafarov on human rights, his arrest and love for his...
Meet Rasul Jafarov, a lawyer and a leading human rights defender from #Azerbaijan. He is the first to tell his story for #meetyourdefender campaign.
https://youtu.be/rItz-7wXo1I
Rasul's...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: human rights defenders share their stories
Human rights concern us all, especially when they are denied. Most of us at some time or another have done (or wish we could...
KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2018
Arbitrary detention of human rights defender Azimjon Askarov in Kyrgyzstan: open letter to EU...
Ahead of the European Union-Kyrgyz Republic Cooperation Council, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Amnesty International, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Watch urge the EU...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2018
Raising key human rights concerns during visit of Raşit Meredow: Open letter to Federica...
On 5 October 2018, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) sent a letter to Federica Mogherini, High...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2018
We are hiring!
IPHR is recruiting a new colleague to work as Project Officer responsible for implementing selected projects and ensuring a close coordination with our partners...
UzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2018
Open letter to Emmanuel Macron ahead of President Mirziyoyev’s visit to France
On 5 October 2018, International Partnership for Human Rights and Association for Human Rights in Central Asia wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron asking him...