KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersJune 2017
Justice advocates and government critics continue to feel the heat in Kazakhstan
Following a spate of attacks, harassment and prosecutions Kazakhstan's embattled civil society continues to be targetted for exercising fundamental rights. A recent court ruling...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2017
Kazakhstan: Attack on journalists’ rights advocate must be properly investigated
Journalists’ rights advocate Ramazan Yesergepov was viciously attacked in Kazakhstan on 14 May 2017 as he was on his way to the capital, Astana...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersApril 2017
Kazakhstan: Escalating campaign against critical voices amid constitutional reform
The CIVICUS Monitor, an initiative aimed at tracking civic space worldwide has posted the following new update about the situation in Kazakhstan on the...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsMarch 2017
Time to turn the tide and end repression of Central Asia’s civil society
We, the undersigning human rights NGOs, are deeply concerned about the serious and deteriorating situation for civil society in Central Asia and call for...
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...
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...
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,...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2016
Kazakhstan: Ruling against civil society activists sets dangerous precedent
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), condemn the prison sentences handed down against Kazakhstani civil society activists Max Bokayev and Talgat Ayan...
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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2016
Kazakhstan: Freedom of assembly on trial – Proceedings against two human rights defenders to...
Geneva-Paris-Brussels-Almaty, 11 October 2016. The day before the trial against human rights defenders Max Bokayev and Talgat Ayan begins in Atyrau (Kazakhstan), national and...