Briefing Paper: Human Rights Situation in Kazakhstan

Leading NGOs called on states to stand with victims

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Briefing Paper: Human Rights Situation in Kazakhstan

Human rights in Kazakhstan continue to be repressed. Peaceful protests are continuously restricted, activists regularly imprisoned or persecuted, and opposition movements arduously suppressed.  According to the Freedom House World Report of 2019, Kazakhstan has an aggregate freedom score of 22 out of 100, where 100 means being the freest. This loca...

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Leading NGOs called on states to stand with victims

16 leading human rights organizations called on States to stand with victims of human rights violations. They welcomed the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly association, that the Council stood up to the global backlash against the rights of women and girls, and that it continued to address the threat

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Human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China

On 29 April, to promote discussion on the human rights violations against ethnic minorities in China, the Bulan Institute and the International Service for Human Rights [ISHR] organized the “Arbitrary Detention and Re-Education of Ethnic Minorities in Western China” event in Geneva. Members of the ISHR, CIVICUS, UN Special Procedures, the Graduate ...