Yearly Archives: 2016
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2016
Newsletter: Legal Aid Groups of the Central Asian Coalitions against Torture
In recent years, the NGO Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have set up Legal Aid Groups to strengthen their work on...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2016
Spotlight: Fundamental rights in Tajikistan
These are challenging times for human rights in Tajikistan. Freedom of expression, freedom of association, non-discrimination and other fundamental rights and freedoms have recently...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2016
Spotlight: Fundamental rights in Turkmenistan
A new report based on monitoring by Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) highlights recent developments regarding freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2016
Kazakhstan: Follow-up to the UN Committee against Torture’s Concluding Observations
The NGO Coalition against Torture in Kazakhstan, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, International Partnership for Human Rights and the World Organisation against Torture submitted...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2016
Azerbaijan: Another human rights lawyer at risk of disbarment
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has joined the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and other members of the Sport for Rights coalition in raising concern...
TurkmenistanEventsFebruary 2016
Turkmenistan: Upcoming event at the European Parliament
Chatham House, International Partnership for Human Rights and the Open Society European Policy Institute are delighted to invite you to the presentation of a...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2016
Uzbekistan: Rights defender’s work impeded – Lift unlawful restrictions
Uzbek authorities should immediately stop harassing the human rights defender Uktam Pardaev and lift the unlawful restrictions on his fundamental rights imposed by police,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanEventsFebruary 2016
Central Asia: Training on compensation of moral harm suffered through torture
Almaty, Brussels, Dushanbe, Warsaw, 04 February 2016 – Thirty-three NGO activists, lawyers and psychologists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan participate in the training “Compensation...
KazakhstanTajikistanEventsFebruary 2016
Central Asia: Training on strategic NGO approaches to communication
Almaty, Brussels, Dushanbe, Warsaw 03 February 2016 – Twenty-six NGO activists of the NGO Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and experienced anti-torture...
UkraineReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2016
Ukraine: Making amnesty work
The issue of granting amnesty to participants in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine has proven to be one of the most contentious ones under...