KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2017
Kazakhstan: UN decisions set important precedents in view of unrelenting rights violations
UN human rights bodies recently announced two important, precedent-setting decisions with respect to the exercise of fundamental freedoms in Kazakhstan. At the same time,...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
OSCE HDIM Statement: Torture and ill-treatment in Central Asia
The Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, established by political emigres in...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesEventsSeptember 2017
The danger of speaking out – recent trends in Central Asia
The following written statement has been prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR, Belgium); Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersAugust 2017
Kazakhstan: Litany of abuses continues, even under EXPO-2017 spotlight
On 9th June 2017 EXPO-2017, a specialised international exhibition, opened with great fanfare in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. The Kazakh government invested considerable resources into...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2017
Calling for an end to torture in Central Asia on International Anti-torture Day
On 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as...
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...