As of 4 February the Coalition has registered 72 reports of torture or other types of ill-treatment: in Almaty – 17, Taldykorgan – 15, West Kazakhstan Oblast (Uralsk) – 7, Qyzylorda – 6, Atyrau – 5, East Kazakhstan Oblast (Oskemen) – 5, Taraz –...

Kazakh security forces used excessive force on at least four occasions, including lethal force such as shooting at protesters and rioters, during recent demonstrations and subsequent civil unrest, Human Rights Watch said today. An analysis of over 80 verified...

26 January 2022 We, the undersigned members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) and other NGOs are concerned that the Tajikistani authorities have imposed an internet shutdown in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan (GBAO), which deprives...

Strongly denouncing the widespread acts of violence that followed the peaceful protests in Kazakhstan that began on 2 January, Parliament urges Kazakh authorities to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms and immediately release arbitrarily detained...

As of today, the Coalition has registered 24 reports of torture or other types of ill-treatment: in Almaty – 6, in Atyrau – 3, in Shymkent – 2, in Karaganda – 1, in Taraz – 3, in Aqtobe – 2, in Uralsk – 2, in...

Due to the tragic events which took place in our country during the first days of 2022, that started as peaceful protests in various regions of the country bringing forward socio-economic and political demands and which ended in violence, assaults, taking...

Dear Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, We, the undersigned women’s rights and human rights organizations, call upon the UN Security Council to hold the Myanmar military and security forces accountable for their grave human rights violations,...

December 16, 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the tradegy in the city of Zhanaozen and the village of Shetpe, when, after a months-long strike of oil workers as a result of the use of firearms by the police, according to official data, 17 people or more...

7 December 2021 Ms. Michèle Coninsx Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) by e-mail: michele.coninsx@un.org Dear Ms. Coninsx, The undersigned organizations write to you to express concerns and to seek...

At the beginning of next week, the European Union (EU) will hold a high-level meeting with the Central Asian governments in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. A coalition of five NGOs urge the EU to use this meeting to insist on concrete measures to address...

1. Introduction The Open Dialog Foundation welcomes the initiative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on consultations regarding the creation of a favourable space for civil society activities and the development of a report with practical recommendations...