News from Activists

A court in Moscow liquidated the Sakharov Centre
The Moscow City Court has decided to liquidate the Sakharov Centre at the suit of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Moscow courts ...

Lithuania denies political asylum to Belarusian activist Olga Karach
Lithuania refused to grant political asylum to the head of the Belarusian Centre for Civil Initiatives "Our House," Olga Karach. This was reported by "Meduza" with reference to Karach herself. ...

Why Ukrainian migration has become beneficial for EU countries
The flow of Ukrainian refugees into Europe at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion revealed the EU's capacity to take in large numbers of refugees and also showed the benefits ...

In which EU countries the number of Ukrainian refugees is growing
There are more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine who have been granted temporary protection status in EU countries. The number of fugitives from war increased by almost 46,000 in ...

Arbitrariness is the order of the day in Belarus
More than 1,400 political prisoners are being held in Belarus - including candidates in the 2020 presidential election According to human rights activists, three years after the presidential elections in ...

The International Peace Bureau(IPB) Has Announced its Intention to Nominate Three Remarkable Organizations with a Focus on the Right to Conscientious Objection for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
The International Peace Bureau(IPB) Has Announced its Intention to Nominate Three Remarkable Organizations with a Focus on the Right to Conscientious Objection for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Berlin, Germany ...

June 2023. ISHR humanitarian aid in Ukraine
ISHR team helps Ukrainians affected by the war At the beginning of June, our team visited Putivl (Sumy region). We distributed 600 individual kits to help people survive the winter. ...

The state silences discrimination in Moldova
Last year, discrimination by language was at the top of the list in Moldova This was stated by the head of the Equality Council, Jan Feldman "There is discrimination in ...

The German Foreign Ministry has allocated five million euros to Aid Ukrainian Refugees in Georgia
Germany Allocates 5 Million Euros to the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) over the next 18 months to help Ukrainian refugees in Georgia who have been affected by the ongoing Russia -Ukraine war. ...

The Moldovan officials openly express their hatred and discrimination against Ukrainians and people of other nationalities living in Moldova
Fiodor Ghelici said that discrimination is promoted at the level of the authorities, not of the ordinary people. Сonsiders Fiodor Ghelici, the ambassador and resident representative of the International Organization ...

„Voices of War“ is a project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
„Voices of War“ is a project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group aimed at collecting materials and interviews with witnesses of the Russian occupation and Russian war crimes in ...

ISHR India and Pakistan Brief
Prepared in Bonn, Germany, by the ISHR Secretariat (June 2023) I. Introduction Pakistan and India are two of the world’s most populous countries. With long histories of rich cultural development, ...

Moldova ranks among the leaders in terms of imprisonment
The Moldovan criminal justice system is one of the toughest in Europe. This is evidenced by an analysis of European prisons and statistics released this week on June 27 in ...

555 transport with humanitarian aid to Lithuania
Lithuania, Kupiškis. Humanitarian aid for refugees Dear friends and supporters, human rights defenders, on June 26, 2023, a transport with humanitarian aid arrived from Wittlich to Northern Lithuania/Kupiškis. We were ...

The situation of refugees in Moldova
The "success story" that Moldova has successfully coped with the flow of refugees from Ukraine may lose relevance. Five months ago, the government stopped allocating money for the maintenance of ...

ISHR team supports Ukrainian children
ISHR continues to help Ukrainians in need On June 1, 2023, on the International Children's Day, we congratulated the children of Stepnohirsk territorial community in Zaporizhzhia region, and delivered them ...