Monthly Archives: September 2015
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2015
Tajikistan: Submissions to the UN Universal Periodic Review
Next spring Tajikistan’s human rights record will be assessed for the second time in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the...
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...
UkraineEventsSeptember 2015
Make Law, Not War – event on international crimes in Eastern Ukraine
On Thursday 24 September, IPHR hosted the side event “Make Law, Not War -- Violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Crimes in...
AzerbaijanEventsSeptember 2015
HDIM side-event: Politically motivated persecution in Azerbaijan
"It should have been Khadija Ismayilova speaking to you today,” said IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour when opening the side-event “Politically motivated persecution in Azerbaijan,” which...
AzerbaijanEventsSeptember 2015
Warsaw protest: Release political prisoners in Azerbaijan!
On Thursday 24 September 2015, representatives of International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Sport for Rights network and other human rights organizations...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEventsSeptember 2015
In the name of stability: Event highlights growing pressure on civil society in Central...
The authorities of Central Asia increasingly use concerns about security and stability as a pretext to curtail fundamental rights and liberties and clamp down...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
Endemic torture in Uzbekistan
Statement by International Partnership for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Civic Solidarity Platform, Human Rights Watch to the...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
A matter of regional concern: Shrinking civil society space in Central Asia
There is a growing trend in Central Asia, in which the authorities curtail fundamental rights and freedoms and clamp down on civil society in...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
Azerbaijan: Sport for Rights calls for release of detained journalist, end to pressure against...
The Sport for Rights Coalition condemns the Azerbaijani authorities’ extensive pressure against the staff of independent online television station Meydan TV, as part of...
KazakhstanTajikistanTurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2015
Spotlight: Fundamental rights in Central Asia
A new report published by four NGOs surveys recent developments in the areas of freedom of expression; freedom of association and assembly; and non-discrimination...