Yearly Archives: 2017
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2017
Threats to civic space in Kazakhstan: Peaceful assembly
On the basis of information provided by International Partnership Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2017
Uzbekistan: Newspaper editor freed after being held for 18 years
The Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), Freedom House, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2017
Threats to civic space in Kazakhstan: Freedom of association and expression
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its Central Asian partners are now cooperating with the CIVICUS Monitor, an initiative aimed at tracking civic...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2017
Turkmenistan’s elections under cloud as civil society faces total clampdown
Global civil society alliance CIVICUS, the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) today highlight a near...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2017
Report: Turkmenistan crashing dissent ahead of elections
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its Central Asian partners have begun cooperating with the CIVICUS alliance on the CIVICUS Monitor initiative, which...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsFebruary 2017
Tracking civic space in Central Asia
We are happy to announce that we have begun cooperating with the global civil society alliance CIVICUS on an initiative called the CIVICUS Monitor,...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2017
Azerbaijan: 76 NGOs urge the EU to use president’s visit to insist on human...
Ahead of the Brussels visit of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on 6 February 2017, 76 NGOs sent a joint letter to high-ranking EU officials,...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2017
Kyrgyzstan: No justice for human rights defender Azimjan Askarov
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) deeply regrets the failure to ensure justice for human rights defender Azimjan Askarov in Kyrgyzstan. At the retrial...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2017
Azerbaijan: Rights groups demand justice for tortured journalist
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaijan’s authorities to immediately investigate the case...