Monthly Archives: October 2016
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative requires significant reforms from Azerbaijan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined 17 other NGOs in welcoming the decision by the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
Uzbekistan: Human rights defender sentenced on politically motivated grounds released from prison
Yesterday, 25 October 2016, Uzbekistani human rights defender Bobumurad Razzokov was released on health grounds after spending three years in prison on trumped-up charges....
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016
Azerbaijan: Letter to the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Together with 17 other NGOs, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has sent an open letter to the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
Kazakhstan: Freedom of assembly on trial – Proceedings against two human rights defenders to...
Geneva-Paris-Brussels-Almaty, 11 October 2016. The day before the trial against human rights defenders Max Bokayev and Talgat Ayan begins in Atyrau (Kazakhstan), national and...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2016
Obtaining compensation for moral harm sustained through torture: Progress and challenges
A new newsletter published by the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and International Partnership...
GeorgiaStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
Georgia: Joint statement on preliminary findings of parliamentary election monitoring
(Berlin, Brussels, Oslo and Tbilisi, 9 October 2016) The joint international election observation mission of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), European Platform for Democratic...
GeorgiaStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
NGO election observers attacked in Georgia
(Brussels, Oslo and Tbilisi, 9 October 2016) During the Georgian parliamentary elections on 8 October 2016 a violent incident occurred in Western Georgia. A...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsOctober 2016
Briefing assessed torture prevention in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
On 23 September 2016, a briefing to discuss the prevention of torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was organized at the OSCE Human Dimension...