Category Archives: FEATURED
The application for a grant “Building a Coalition Against Torture in Uzbekistan” was refused in financing in 2014.
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 Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club” (FHC) to measurably diminish the occurrence of torture at the hands of authorities in Uzbekistan, provide legal aid to victims and raise awareness of the issue at the national and international levels.
Kyrgyzstan at a Crossroads: Shrink or Widen the Scene for Human Rights Defenders
(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 rights defenders, declared the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint FIDH-OMCT partnership) today in Bishkek while presenting its latest report on Kyrgyzstan.
Financial crisis in”Ezgulik”: Public call to help!
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 support of the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Lorne Kröner.
Over 13 years of activity, which has 76 branches about the country, the Society “Ezgulik” issued more than a thousand press releases and more of their permanent and more than 20 analytical reports relating to human rights. Unlike other non-governmental organizations of our country, the organization that operates under fierce pressure to date in connection with the financial crisis is at the termination of their activities.
United Nations Human Rights of the high commissioner: A decision on the case Azimjan Askarov
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, separately, and in conjunction with article 2 (3); article 9, paragraph (1); article 10, paragraph 1; article 14, paragraphs (1), (2), (3) (b), (e) and (5); article 19 and 26, of the Covenant. The Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 7 January 1995. The author is represented by counsel.
2016 World Press Freedom Index: leaders paranoid about journalists
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 newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests.
The 2016 World Press Freedom Index reflects the intensity of the attacks on journalistic freedom and independence by governments, ideologies and private-sector interests during the past year.
2016 Press Freedom Index: Another turn of the screw in the post-Soviet region
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 keep on falling.
The fact that Russia (148th, up 4) improved its ranking slightly should not raise hopes because its score fell as a result of the persecution of critics, which has reached levels not seen for three decades. And Russia’s behaviour has legitimized the growing repression throughout the region because Moscow acts as a regional “model,” albeit a negative one as regards media freedom.
Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
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 c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Palais Wilson United Nations Office at Geneva CH 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
RE: Arbitrary Detention of Salijon Abdurakhmanov, Azam Farmonov, Gaybullo Jalilov, Dilmurod Saidov, and Akzam Turgunov (Uzbekistan)
Journalist Galima Bukharbaeva is suing news portal Zamondosh for libel
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 Uzbekistan Galima Bukharbaeva against the website Zamondosh. The Netherlands-based Zamondosh is accused of damaging Bukharbaeva’s professional reputation.
Well-known journalist Bukharbaeva, who headed the now defunct Uznews.net, says Zamondosh carried a series of libelous materials against her. She seeks a written rectification as well as compensation for the damage suffered.
Stop the Killings – Front Line Defenders Annual Report 2016
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 Defenders Annual Report 2016”, the organisation’s Executive Director, Mary Lawlor outlined how, “Human rights defenders (HRDs) face increasingly restrictive and brutal environments in every region of the globe. Extreme violence is being used more frequently and in more countries, while fabricated prosecutions and unfair trials have become the norm in many parts of the world. Those who target HRDs have stepped up their efforts to silence them, both within their borders and internationally”.
