Recent developments in the management of asylum seekers in Kazakhstan have raised serious concerns among human rights defenders and international organisations. Specifically, considering accusations against the state institution "Department for Coordination...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of law (KIBHR) consider the seven-year prison sentence handed down to opposition party leader Marat Zhylanbaev to be a shocking illustration of...

Paris-Geneva, September 29, 2023 - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and FIDH’s member organisations, the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, ILI Foundation, and the Norwegian Helsinki...

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners draw attention to the widening attack on civic space and freedoms seen in Central Asia at a time of increasing international interest in the region and an increasing number of high-level meetings...

The southern capital greeted International Women's Day with rallies: three actions were held in different districts. At the same time, the city authorities abandoned the traditional cultural festivities. The first little rally was held with the active support...

The Kazakhstan NGO Working Group on Child Rights Protection, which has for 20 years defended and promoted the rights and interests of the child, was outraged by the conduct of the Almaty police officers who roughly detained a man together with his 4-year-old...

The NGO Coalition against Torture in Kazakhstan considers that the Opinion of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, issued on 25 October 2022 in relation to Mr Karim Massimov, former Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, is considerate...

2022, A Year of Bloodshed - Torture, Police Brutality and the Lack of Accountability in Central Asia: NGO briefin On 4 October 2022, as part of the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference 2022, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), World Organisation...

In August 2022, the first case involving law enforcement officers charged with using torture against individuals detained during and after the January 2022 events began in the city of Taldykorgan in Kazakhstan. International Partnership for Human...

Civil society groups call on Kazakhstan to establish a fully independent investigation into the January 2022 events Six months after the deaths of over 240 people and hundreds were allegedly subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, there has been no...

Today, 26 June, is the United Nations (UN) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, based in exile in...

In this note, Kazakhstani non-commercial organizations (NCOs) hereby express their concerns related to proposed legislation in Kazakhstan that is contrary to international standards on preventing the abuse of NCOs for financing terrorism and contravenes human...

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...