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 Rights Dialogue, which will take place in Brussels on 8 July 2011. The contribution describes the repressive environment that civil society continues to face in Turkmenistan. It highlights a number of recent cases of harassment of civil society and features recommendations for measures the EU should urge the Turkmen authorities to take to improve the current situation.
Read the full contribution here.