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HRW World Report 2021

HRW World Report 2021

January 14, 2021 January 14, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment on HRW World Report 2021

Turkey: Executive interference in the judiciary and in prosecutorial decisions are en-trenched problems, reflected in the authorities’ systematic practice of detaining, prosecuting, and convicting on bogus and overbroad terrorism and other charges. At the time of writing, an estimated 87

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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment on Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

On 7 December 2020 the FEMM Committee held a Public Hearing on “Women’s Rights Defenders (WRD) – EU’s role to combat the increasing attacks against WRD and women’s rights” The hearing discussed the situation of Women’s Rights Defenders by assessing

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NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

January 14, 2021 January 11, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment on NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

NGO CSW/NY organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The NGO CSW Forum runs parallel to the events occurring within the UN Headquarters. This provides civil society the opportunity to engage in

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Turkey: Statement by the Spokesperson on the extension of Mr. Kavala’s detention

Turkey: Statement by the Spokesperson on the extension of Mr. Kavala’s detention

December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020 By admin

Brussels, The European Court of Human Rights had concluded, more than a year ago,  that Osman Kavala’s arrest and pre-trial detention took place in the absence of evidence to support a reasonable suspicion he had committed an offence and pursued

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Statement on the Turkish court decision on Osman Kavala

Statement on the Turkish court decision on Osman Kavala

December 19, 2020 December 18, 2020 By admin

Press Releases AFET  Yesterday   The EP standing rapporteur for Turkey and the chair of the EU-Turkey parliamentary delegation issued the following statement Friday in reaction to the decision in the case of Osman Kavala. Statement by European Parliament Standing Rapporteur for Turkey Nacho

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European Court Of Human Rights Press Release

European Court Of Human Rights Press Release

December 19, 2020 December 18, 2020 By admin

In the absence of effective judicial review, a dismissal based on Emergency Legislative Decree No. 677 was in breach of the Convention In today’s Chamber judgment(1) in the case of Pişkin v. Turkey (application no. 33399/18) the European Court of

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McCaul and Engel Statement on Turkey Actions Undermining NATO Alliance

McCaul and Engel Statement on Turkey Actions Undermining NATO Alliance

December 16, 2020 December 16, 2020 By admin

Press Release Dec 16, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel and Lead Republican Michael McCaul have released the following statement on their deep concern over Turkey’s actions under President Erdogan that endanger the NATO alliance, the broader

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EU adopts a global human rights sanctions regime

EU adopts a global human rights sanctions regime

December 10, 2020 December 10, 2020 By admin

The Council today adopted a decision and a regulation establishing a global human rights sanctions regime. For the first time, the EU is equipping itself with a framework that will allow it to target individuals, entities and bodies – including state and non-state

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Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

November 20, 2020 November 20, 2020 By admin

Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-eighth session, 24–28 August 2020 Opinion No. 47/2020 concerning Kahraman Demirez, Mustafa Erdem, Hasan Hüseyin Günakan, Yusuf Karabina, Osman Karakaya and Cihan Özkan (Turkey and Kosovo1)* 1. The Working

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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes two reports on Turkey

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes two reports on Turkey

August 9, 2020 August 9, 2020 By admin

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the reports on its 2017 periodic visit and 2019 ad hoc visit to Turkey. The main objective of the

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  • Kazakh Authorities Target Rights Groups in Coordinated Attack January 20, 2021
    Click to expand Image From left to right: the head of Erkindik Kanaty, Elena Shvetsova, with lawyers Olga Enns and Roman Reimer, in the office of the deputy head of the tax department, Erlik Mukanov, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, January 18, 2021. © 2021 Sonlya Tolken/RFE/RL The ongoing crackdown on local human rights groups casts serious doubt that […]
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  • Lebanon: Dire Conditions for Syrian Refugees in Border Town January 19, 2021
    (Beirut) – Syrian refugees in Arsal, a Lebanese town on the border with Syria, do not have adequate shelters to withstand the harsh winter months, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video showing their dire living conditions. More than 15,000 Syrian refugees in Arsal are experiencing their second winter since a 2019 order from […]
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  • Another Political Activist Jailed in Russia January 18, 2021
    Click to expand Image Mathematics and mechanics graduate student at Moscow State University Azat Miftakhov before the court session in Golovinsky district court. September 05, 2019.  ©Ivan Vodop'janov/Kommersant/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) A court in Moscow has sentenced Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate math student and political activist, to six years in prison on highly controversial hooliganism […]
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  • Assistance slowly returns to refugee camps in southern Tigray January 21, 2021
    UNHCR regains access to Adi Harush and Mai Aini camps while two other camps for Eritrean refugees remain cut off by the ongoing insecurity.
  • 'All I want is a doctor for my brother and a school for me' January 20, 2021
    More than 2,200 asylum seekers and refugees have now been relocated from reception centres on Greek islands and elsewhere in Greece to other European countries.
  • 'A whole new world has opened in front of me' January 20, 2021
    For 50,000 formerly stateless people in Uzbekistan, citizenship will unlock the door to foreign travel, the right to vote and allow them a new-found dignity.

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  • Israel: ‘Halt and reverse’ new settlement construction – UN chief  January 19, 2021
    Israel’s decision to advance plans for some 800 new settlement units, most of which are located deep inside the occupied West Bank, has sparked the concern of UN Secretary-General António Guterres. 
  • Spectre of unrest, violent repression looming over Haiti, warns UN rights office January 19, 2021
    Increasing political tensions in Haiti coupled with insecurity and structural inequalities could result in protests followed by violent crackdowns by authorities, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) warned on Tuesday.
  • UN rights office ‘deeply troubled’ by Russian activist Aleksei Navalny’s arrest January 18, 2021
    The UN human rights office (OHCHR) have raised alarm over the arrest of Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny and called for his immediate release.  The office said in a tweet that they were "deeply troubled" by the arrest and called on the Government to respect his right to legal due process.

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