Application Date: August 28, 2014 Project Title: Building a Coalition Against Torture in Uzbekistan Eurasia Program Project Application Main Application Executive Summary This project will strengthen the capacities of the International…
Mutabar Tadjibayeva – 2008 “They mutilated my body,” said Tadjibayeva “but they have not broken my spirit.” On 7 October 2005, Mutabar Tadjibayeva was arrested on her way to Tashkent…
(Bishkek, Geneva, Paris) Kyrgyz authorities must reject all bills that could shrink the space for human rights in the country and should create a safe and favourable environment for human…
Contacting the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik”. Dated: 04.02.2016. Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik” was registered by the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan March 19, 2003 with the…
1. The author of the communication is Mr.Azimjan Askarov, a Kyrgyz national born in 1951. He claims that the State party has violated his rights under article 2; article 7,…
Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over…
Press release Media freedom has declined steadily in the post-Soviet states. Nearly two thirds of the region’s countries are ranked around 150th or lower in the Index and their scores…
Honorary Chair The Most Reverend Desmond M.Tutu April 1, 2016 By fax: + 41 (0) 22.917.90.06 and email: urgent-action@ohchr.org Mr.Michel Forst Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders…
PRESS RELEASE Galima Bukharbaeva v. Zamondosh: Berlin, February 9th, 2016 – The district court of Arnhem, the Netherlands, is expected to hear a defamation case brought by independent journalist from…
As our annual report documents, at least 156 human rights defenders were killed or died in detention in 2015. Speaking at the launch of “Stop the Killings – Front Line…
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