Monthly Archives: June 2017
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2017
Tajikistan: NGOs, lawyers and journalists under pressure
This update has been prepared for the CIVICUS Monitor by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners in Tajikistan, Nota Bene and...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
EU: Insist on end to reprisals against critical voices in pre-election Kyrgyzstan
Today EU-Kyrgyzstan human rights talks are scheduled to take place in Brussels. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) urges the EU to address the...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
Calling for an end to torture in Central Asia on International Anti-torture Day
On 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as...
TajikistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2017
Campaign entitled “I am against torture today, tomorrow, and always!” implemented in Tajikistan
Within the framework of an EU-funded human rights project, the Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan is implementing the campaign "I...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
Uzbekistan: 68-year old Human Rights Defender Nuraddin Jumaniyazov dies in detention
AHRCA and IPHR have learned that wrongfully imprisoned human rights defender Nuraddin Jumaniyazov has died in detention in Uzbekistan. Relatives of the labour rights’...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
Azerbaijan: EU official should press rights issues – European Parliament resolution calls for release...
A European Union official visiting Baku on June 16, 2017, should press President Ilham Aliyev to free unjustly imprisoned political activists, journalists, and other...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersJune 2017
Russia: Policy brief on xenophobia and radical nationalism, freedom of conscience and misuse of...
In the framework of the joint EU-funded project, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) assisted SOVA Center for Information and Analyses with the preparation...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJune 2017
Justice advocates and government critics continue to feel the heat in Kazakhstan
Following a spate of attacks, harassment and prosecutions Kazakhstan's embattled civil society continues to be targetted for exercising fundamental rights. A recent court ruling...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2017
Joint NGO appeal: Prevent misuse of INTERPOL in the case of prominent Azerbaijani human...
In a joint letter, International Partnership for Human Rights, Fair Trials, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
Turkmenistan: 18 men tortured, sentenced in unfair trial
In a joint statement, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Alternative Turkmenistan News, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Norwegian...