Theme: Human Rights Defenders

Experts and focal points from all UN treaty bodies have gathered for the first time in an attempt to identify and replicate good practices in preventing and responding to reprisals against individuals and groups who engage with the system. When…

While the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 20th anniversary of the Declaration on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote…

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, aged 91, passed away on December 8, 2018 in Moscow. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” expresses its condolences to all the relatives and colleagues of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, as well as all people she took care about…

THE OBSERVATORY – PRESS RELEASE Bishkek – Geneva – Paris, October 23, 2018 – Yesterday,the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan granted the petition of FIDH member organization Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan challenging the lower court’s designation of reports by Bir Duino and…

KGZ 001 / 0918 / OBS 118 Judicial harassment Kyrgyzstan September 28, 2018 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following…

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial” office in Chechnya, continued his human rights work after the murder of Natalia Estemirova in 2009 in spite of threats from the authorities. Since 9 January 2018 Oyub Titiev is…