200,000 children need urgent support to overcome trauma of volatile conflict in eastern Ukraine
On 13 February 2017, first grade students participate in a drill to practice their response to a shelling by taking cover in a part of...
Genocide Watch
Apr 7, 2017
Russia Moves to Ban Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘Extremist’
Jehovah’s Witnesses gathered in a house in the village of Vorokhobino, north of Moscow, where they meet for services. Credit James Hill...
New York Times 1
Apr 4, 2017
Chechen Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says
By Andrew E. Kramer MOSCOW — First, two television reporters vanished. Then a waiter went missing. Over the past week, men ranging in age...
New York Times 1
Apr 1, 2017
Refugees from Chechnya unsuccessfully seek refuge in Poland
Attorneys refused access to their refugee clients’ interviews with the Border Guard. Photo: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights On a...
Euronews
Mar 31, 2017
Looming Dangers One Year after Nagorno-Karabakh Escalation
By Magdalena Grono The room housing refugees in the former Soviet sanatorium just outside Baku was getting a much-needed facelift: new...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 31, 2017
U.N. rights experts call on Russia to release protesters
Law enforcement officers detain an opposition supporter during a rally in Moscow, Russia March 26, 2017.REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov United...
Reuters
Mar 29, 2017
Russian authorities 'imprisoning Crimean Tatars in psychiatric hospitals'
By Madeline Roache A man carries flags of Crimean Tatars and Ukraine while celebrating Crimean Tatar Flag Day in Simferopol in 2014....
The Guardian
Mar 28, 2017
Adam Schiff: America must speak strongly about the fact of Armenian Genocide
America must speak strongly and plainly about the facts of the Armenian Genocide and denounce all crimes against humanity, Represntative...
Siranush Ghazanchyan | Public Radio of Armenia
Mar 28, 2017
RUSSIA: JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES MOBILIZE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO THREAT OF BAN IN RUSSIA
Threatened with an imminent ban on their worship in Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses are responding with a direct appeal to Kremlin and...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Mar 23, 2017
It is President Erdogan's Turkey, not humane Germany, that is guilty of 'Nazi practices'
There was something especially obscene about Turkish president Erdogan’s comparison of Angela Merkel’s Germany with the Nazis. “Nazi...
The Independent
Mar 22, 2017
The Hundred Days
Executive Summary The first 100 days of Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, hint at the possibility of much-overdue change in...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2017
Ukraine's Legal Cases Against Russia In International Courts
By Gregorio Baggiani Ukraine has just concluded its month-long role as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Mar 3, 2017
