This section features reports and briefing papers issued by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners. For statements and press releases, go here.
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2023
Tajikistan: Continuous crackdown on civil society
This report, which covers developments affecting the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Tajikistan for the period from August 2022 to March...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2023
Uzbekistan: Briefing for visit of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is visiting Uzbekistan on 13-15 March 2023. Prior to his visit, Association for Human Rights in...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2023
EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue: NGO priorities
A new human rights-focused dialogue between the EU and Kazakhstan’s government is scheduled to take place in Brussels on 9 March 2023. The dialogue...
RussiaUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2023
New Report Links Western-Made Components to the Weapons Used in Russia’s Suspected Ukraine War...
A new report, released by International Partnership for Human Rights and the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, has found that western-made dual-use components have continued to...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2023
Turkmenistan’s human rights record up for UN review – NGO report
This week the United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Turkmenistan’s human rights record at its session in Geneva. The expert body will examine...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2023
“We don’t even cry anymore”. Torture, ill-treatment and impunity in Kazakhstan in connection with...
This joint report by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (KIBHR), and Kazakhstan’s...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2023
Attacks on civilians in Motyzhyn, Kopyliv, and Severynivka, Ukraine
This new report by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Truth Hounds, and Global Diligence LLP sets out evidence of war crimes committed by...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2023
Turkmenistan: Increasing internet censorship and ongoing persecution of dissent, despite welcome releases
This Monitor update covers developments relating to the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Turkmenistan from July to December 2022. International Partnership...
Ukraine OSINTUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2022
Armoury, Prison, Graveyard: Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital under Russian occupation
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) presents the report "Armoury, Prison, Graveyard: Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital under Russian occupation", prepared by IPHR, Truth...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2022
Turkmenistan: Human rights groups highlight key issues for EU dialogue
This week the EU will hold its annual human rights-focused dialogue with Turkmenistan’s government in Ashgabat. The meeting comes at a time when the...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2018
Tajikistan: Protests and tensions lead to internet restrictions
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) prepared this report as part of its cooperation with the CIVICUS Monitor. It covers developments relating to civil society...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2018
Tajikistan: Joint NGO report launched on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On the United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Tajikistani civil society organizations Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2018
Kazakhstan: Rapid shrinking of civic space and freedoms
This update covers developments on the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression in Kazakhstan from July to September 2018. It was prepared by International...
AzerbaijanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2018
Key concerns and recommendations on the protection of fundamental rights in Azerbaijan
Since the previous EU-Azerbaijan human rights dialogue in October 2017, the political context and human rights situation have not improved in the country. The...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2018
Turkmenistan: the state restricts fundamental rights to cover up crisis
As the serious economic crisis continues in Turkmenistan, authorities have gone to great length to cover up its impact by rigidly controlling state media, preventing citizens from...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2018
Restricted space: ongoing concerns about restrictions on fundamental freedoms in Central Asia
This briefing paper by International Partnership for Human Rights together with Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, based in exile), Restoration of Justice...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2018
Kyrgyzstan: Follow up on promises
This update covers events from 30th April to 15th August 2018 and was prepared by Legal Prosperity Foundation and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) in...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersAugust 2018
Sliding downhill: Concerns remain regarding the civic space situation despite releases
In Tajikistan, the recent releases from detention of an independent journalist and a lawyer have provided rays of hope in an otherwise bleak situation....
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2018
Kazakhstan: Closure of independent media and peaceful protests hampered
This update covers developments on the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression in Kazakhstan from March to June 2018. International Partnership for Human...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2018
Turkmenistan: Release of journalist does not signal any improvement
While there has been some recent progress on human rights in neighbouring Uzbekistan, the situation in Turkmenistan remains essentially unchanged and fundamental freedoms continue...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2017
Kyrgyzstan: Will the new president break with his predecessor’s troubling human rights legacy?
On 24th November 2017, Sooronbay Jeenbekov was inaugurated as Kyrgyzstan’s new president. He follows Almazbek Atambayev who led the country for six years but could...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2017
Uzbekistan: some positive developments but critics and journalists still face reprisals
This update covers developments on civic freedoms in Uzbekistan from September to December 2017. It has been prepared for the CIVICUS Monitor by International...
UkraineReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2017
New report: attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Eastern Ukraine
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Truth Hounds present their latest report – Attacks on Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure in Eastern Ukraine. The...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2017
Kazakhstan: Problematic draft laws and politically-motivated imprisonments
Civil society fears that draft legislation on communications, lawyers and religious practice currently under consideration in Kazakhstan may result in new restrictions on fundamental...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2017
Turkmenistan: No end to repression after the Asian Games
Turkmenistan hosted the fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, or the so-called Asiada, in its capital Ashgabat from 17th to 27th September 2017....
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2017
Kyrgyzstan: Media and free speech restrictions cast a cloud over presidential election
Opinion polls predicted a tight race for the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan held on 15th October 2017. However, Sooronbay Jeenbekov from the ruling Social...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2017
Tajikistan: Concerns over lack of transparency on draft NGO law and restrictions on social...
This update covers developments affecting civic space in Tajikistan from August to October 2017. It has been prepared for the Civicus Monitor by International...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2017
Unprecedented deterioration in human rights protection in Russia: joint submission to UPR
Human Rights Watch and International Partnership for Human Rights have prepared a submission for the third cycle review of Russia in the framework of...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2017
Message to UN review: Systemic reform needed in Uzbekistan to protect fundamental rights
In May 2018 Uzbekistan’s compliance with its international human rights obligations will be assessed during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a state peer review...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2017
EU: Seek concrete commitments for improvements at human rights dialogue with Azerbaijan
The EU will hold its annual human rights dialogue with Azerbaijan’s government in Brussels on 17 October 2017. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)...
GeorgiaReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2016
Georgia: Final report of NGO election observation mission
A joint international election observation mission launched by the International Elections Study Center, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, International Partnership for Human Rights and the...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
UN review of the situation of minorities and migrants in Turkmenistan
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will review the implementation of the corresponding convention in Turkmenistan on 30 November-1 December...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
EU: Insist on concrete measures to address pressing human rights issues in Kazakhstan
Today the EU will hold the eighth round of its annual Human Rights Dialogue with Kazakhstan in Brussels. This meeting comes at a time...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
The UN Committee against Torture examines the situation in Turkmenistan
At its current session in Geneva, on 21-22 November 2016, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will examine the situation in Turkmenistan. The Committee...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2016
Briefing paper for EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue
The death of former President Islam Karimov has led to a period of political transition in Uzbekistan. However, the profound disregard for fundamental rights...
UkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2016
International crimes in Crimea: An assessment of two and a half years of Russian...
A new report published by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) documents evidence of international crimes and violations of fundamental rights taking place on...
ArmeniaStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2016
Burnt, beaten and betrayed: Armenians awaiting accountability for police violence
A new report published by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) today provides chilling first-hand accounts of police violence during July 2016 protests in...
ArmeniaReports & Briefing PapersAugust 2016
Armenia: Preliminary findings of fact-finding mission to investigate recent events
On 17 July 2016 an armed group of representatives of the opposition group “Daredevils of Sassoun” occupied Erebuni district police station in southern Yerevan,...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2016
Russia: Policy brief on xenophobia, freedom of religion violations and misuse of anti-extremism legislation
A new policy brief prepared by the SOVA Center for Information and Analyses and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) surveys developments with respect...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2016
UN Human Rights Committee to begin review of Turkmenistan
This week the UN Human Rights Committee will begin its second review of Turkmenistan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...
KazakhstanTajikistanTurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2015
Central Asia: Report highlights worrying trends of stifling dissent
A new report highlights ongoing and increasing efforts by the authorities in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to stifle dissent and pluralism as part of...
AzerbaijanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2015
Justice behind bars: The persecution of civil society in Azerbaijan
A new report published by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) highlights the abuse of the criminal justice system during the current unprecedented civil...
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...
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...
AzerbaijanReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2015
Azerbaijan: Alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture
At its session in Geneva this week, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will review Azerbaijan’s fourth periodic report about its implementation of the...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2015
The situation of civil society in Central Asia: Key concerns and recommendations
Briefing for human rights seminar organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 22-23 October 2015
As...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2015
Torture in Central Asia
Briefing for human rights seminar organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 22-23 October 2015
This...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2015
Russia: Policy briefs on violations of freedom of religion and xenophobia
As part of a joint project, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has assisted the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis with the preparation...
UkraineReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2015
New report: Fighting impunity in Eastern Ukraine
A new comprehensive report published by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) presents compelling evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and international criminal...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2015
Tajikistan: Submissions to the UN Universal Periodic Review
Next spring Tajikistan’s human rights record will be assessed for the second time in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the...
Reports & Briefing PapersDecember 2014
Annual report 2014
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) has prepared an annual report about the work of the organization in 2014. The report can be downloaded...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2014
EU-Kazakhstan human rights talks: Key concerns
This week, on 12 November 2014, a new round of the annual EU-Kazakhstan Human Rights Dialogue is scheduled to take place in Brussels. International...
KazakhstanTajikistanTurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2014
New monitoring report: Fundamental rights in Central Asia in early July-early October 2014
A new report based on monitoring conducted by Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Nota Bene (Tajikistan) and Turkmen Initiative for Human...
KazakhstanTajikistanTurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2014
Protection of fundamental rights in Central Asia: Update on developments in April-June 2014
A new monitoring report, which has been prepared in the framework of a joint project implemented by three Central Asian NGOs and one Brussels-based...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersEventsJune 2014
Turkmenistan: UN body to take stock of the state of child rights
With the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child set to begin its review of Turkmenistan today, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR)...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersJune 2014
Report: The application of the Foreign Agents Law by Russian courts
A new report entitled “The Judicial Dimension of the NGO crackdown – The Application of the Foreign Agents Act by Russian Courts” summarizes the findings of...
RussiaUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMay 2014
New report details the situation facing IDPs from the Crimean peninsula
Brussels, 28 May 2014. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), a Brussels based NGO, has released a report documenting the challenges and experiences of those...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2014
Central Asia: Joint NGO concerns and recommendations on improving efforts to eradicate torture
Regional Workshop on Implementing Human Dimension Commitments and Enhancing the Role of Civil Society in the Work of the OSCE, Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 20-21 May...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2014
Central Asia: Joint NGO concerns and recommendations on the protection of human rights defenders
Regional Workshop on Implementing Human Dimension Commitments and Enhancing the Role of Civil Society in the Work of the OSCE, Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 20-21 May...
GeorgiaRussiaReports & Briefing PapersApril 2014
Georgia: Five years of non-action
A new policy paper published by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, an IPHR partner organization, discusses the failure to investigate the crimes of the Russian-Georgian war of...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2013
The EU should focus on widening free speech crackdown at human rights dialogue with...
This week the EU will hold a new round of its human rights dialogue with Kazakhstan to take stock of developments since the last...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2013
Uzbekistan: Persecution of independent civil society voices
Ahead of the new round of the EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with Uzbekistan, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the International Human Rights...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2013
The EU and consolidating autocracies in Central Asia: A dialogue of the deaf?
The Civic Solidarity Platform, a human rights NGO coalition of which International Partnership for Human Rights is a member, has published a new policy brief analysing...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsOctober 2013
Russia: Monitoring of court cases related to the “foreign agents” law
International Partnership for Human Rights is coordinating a Civil Solidarity Platform initiative to monitor trials against NGOs in cases initiated under the 2012 "foreign agents" law...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2013
Tajikistan: New report details human rights violations during July 2012 special security operation
A new report by the Civic Solidarity Platform assesses the human rights dimension of the July 2012 special security operation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (GBAO),...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersEventsFebruary 2013
Discrimination against visual minorities, Roma, migrants and indigenous peoples: Russia’s record before the United...
Russia’s record of racial discrimination is up for review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On Thursday 14 and Friday...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2012
Russia: Civil society action to counter discrimination and misuse of anti-extremism legislation
IPHR's Russian partner organisations the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis are engaged in efforts to defend basic rights...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2012
Universal Periodic Review Submission on Uzbekistan
The Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan, International Partnership for Human Rights and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee have prepared a joint...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2012
EU Central Asia Strategy and Human Rights Promotion: Civil Society Views and Recommendations
This month it is five years since the adoption of the EU Strategy for a new Partnership with Central Asia, which provides a framework...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2012
Fundamental freedoms under serious threat in Central Asia twenty years after Soviet collapse
Brussels, The Hague, Vienna, Almaty, Tashkent 7 March 2012. A new 36-page report published today by a coalition of five human rights groups from Europe and...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2012
Turkmenistan: Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
At its 104th session on 12-30 March 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Turkmenistan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and...
KazakhstanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2011
Censorship and control of the internet in Central Asia
Brussels 28 November 2011. A briefing paper issued today by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and four partner organizations highlights problems of censorship and control of...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2011
New briefing note: Repression of labor protests in Kazakhstan
Almaty, Brussels, 18 October 2011. A briefing note published today by Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law and International Partnership for Human...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2011
Kazakhstan: Briefing paper for UN human rights review
Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR), International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) have...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2011
Contribution to EU-Turkmenistan Human Rights Dialogue
Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights, International Partnership for Human Rights and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee have submitted a contribution to this year's EU-Turkmenistan Human...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2011
Contribution to EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue
With assistance of IPHR and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan has submitted a contribution to...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersApril 2011
Submission on Turkmenistan to UN Human Rights Committee
The Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights, an IPHR partner organization, has submitted comments to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of the first-ever review of Turkmenistan...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersNovember 2010
A joint report on the fight against trafficking in persons in Kazakhstan
Brussels 23 November 2010. The International Legal Initiative (Almaty), the Women's Resource Centre (Shymkant) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (Brussels) today released a report that analyzes...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2010
Briefing note to EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights: Repression and Exploitation of Farmers and...
Brussels 12 July 2010. The Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) today presented...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2008
New report highlights repression of NGOs in Russia
The Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) and Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) today published a report examining the impact of the so-called Russian NGO law,...