Monthly Archives: November 2015
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2015
Briefings for EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue
The annual EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue is scheduled to take place in Astana on 26 November 2015. Together with Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
EU: Raise free speech and torture cases with Kazakhstan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) call on the EU to prominently...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Uzbekistan: Rights defender arrested
(Bishkek, November 25, 2015) – Uzbek authorities should immediately release and drop their criminal case against Uktam Pardaev, a prominent human rights activist arrested...
ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaMoldovaUkraineEventsNovember 2015
Speech: Security of human rights defenders in Eastern Partnership countries
On 19-21 November 2015, the Annual Assembly of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum was held in Kyiv, Ukraine. IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour participated...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2015
Briefing for EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue
On the occasion of the ninth round of the EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogues to be held in Tashkent on 24 November 2015, the Association...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Azerbaijan: Arif Yunus transferred to house arrest – Renewed call for the unconditional release...
We -- members of the Civic Solidarity Platform -- were relieved to learn that one of Azerbaijan’s most well-known political prisoners, Arif Yunus, has...
Campaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2015
Campaign launch: Stand 4 Human Rights Defenders
The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) is launching a year-long campaign: Stand 4 Human Rights Defenders. HRDN is an informal group of 48...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Uzbekistan: Activist Freed After 21 Years
Rights Groups Call on UN to Hold Tashkent Accountable for Arbitrary Detention
(Bishkek, November 12, 2015) – One of the world’s longest imprisoned peaceful political activists,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsNovember 2015
Newsletter: Raising torture concerns at the 2015 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
At this year’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw representatives of the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Helsinki Foundation...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
Azerbaijan: UN Committee against Torture urged to intervene to stop torture and save...
On the eve of Azerbaijan’s hearing by the UN anti-torture body, the OMCT and IPHR provided a detailed briefing on torture and other forms...