Monthly Archives: April 2015
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2015
Joint letter on EU position on Azerbaijan
This week the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2015
Thanks to the Committee against Torture Rasim Bayramov from Kazakhstan was awarded compensation for...
Police officers tortured Rasim Bayramov in 2008. Domestic complaint mechanisms in Kazakhstan proved ineffective, but he did not give up. Thanks to a decision...
MoldovaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2015
Harassment of civil society organisations has intensified in the Transnistrian region of Moldova
Statement by members of the Civic Solidarity Platform
On April 17 2015, the de facto Security Committee (or the KGB) of the separatist Transnistrian region...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2015
Azerbaijan: Another unjust and shameful conviction of human rights lawyer
On 22 April 2015, Intigam Aliyev, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and head of the Legal Education Society (LES) was sentenced to seven...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2015
Azerbaijan: Leading human rights defender convicted on politically motivated charges
Prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender Rasul Jafarov has been sentenced by the Baku Court of Grave Crimes to six and a half years in...
KazakhstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2015
Open letter to the International Olympic Committee: Speak out against bill threatening LGBTI expression...
International Partnership for Human Rights and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law have sent a letter to the President and...
TajikistanTurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2015
Stifling civil society in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan: Current concerns
Joint statement by Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Nota Bene, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights and International Partnership for...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersApril 2015
Freedom of association: A downward spiral – An update on developments in the countries...
Last December participants of the Civil Society Parallel Conference issued recommendations to OSCE participating states, political bodies and institutions prior to the OSCE Ministerial...