Member Releases

• İHD 2019 REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKEY 18 May 2020
• BHRC publishes full trial observations of the “Gezi Park” trial as the ECtHR confirms Osman Kavala must be immediately released 15 May 2020
• İHD’s Main Concerns on the Amended Law on the Enforcement of Sentences and Security Measures 28 Apr 2020
• İHD’s ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF SENTENCES 28 Apr 2020
• Undermining legality and the rule of law under the pretext of coronavirus 15 Apr 2020
• Italy is a landing place for migrants who are now at sea. Appeal of the Asylum Table 9 Apr 2020
• Gaza’s health sector under repeated attack 30 Mar 2020
• Only immediate international support can avert catastrophe for Palestinians in Gaza and beyond 26 Mar 2020
• KISA press release on International Day Against Racism 23 Mar 2020
• Open Letter by 85 Organizations: “Protect our laws and humanity!” 6 Mar 2020
• KISA calls on Minister to retract defamatory statement 4 Mar 2020
• Human rights day 2019: An overview of human rights in Turkey 19 Dec 2019
• Human rights day 2019: An overview of human rights in Turkey 19 Dec 2019
• Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements: the mirage of the evaluation study ( Civil society declaration) 12 Dec 2019
• İHD Report and Recommendations on the Judicial Reform Strategy Document 14 Nov 2019
• İHD Warns of Open and Imminent Threats against HRDs 16 Oct 2019
• İHD-HRFT Joint Statement on the Military Offensive into Syria 14 Oct 2019
• BHRC trial report on latest stage of Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey confirms ECtHR finding that continued detention is politically motivated 4 Sep 2019
• Violence against women is a result of discriminatory policies! 3 Sep 2019
• IHD’s Kars branch Chairperson Güldane Kiliç should immediately be released 29 Jul 2019
• OMDH statement on the Laayoune events on 19 July 25 Jul 2019
• BHRC: The “Gezi Park” trial forms part of a chilling clampdown on human rights defenders and civil society in Turkey. 17 Jul 2019
• The Cyprus Parliament has voted unanimously to amend the law around penalising buyers of sex services from victims of trafficking 15 Jul 2019
• IHD 2018 Report On Human Rights Violations In Turkey 2 May 2019
• Call for Peace Cannot Be Sentenced 8 Mar 2019
• Event: Torture and Corruption 40th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council 21 Feb 2019
• Landmark conviction against racism in social media 11 Jan 2019
• Refugees stranded on British Military Bases for over 20 years are finally granted indefinite entry and stay permit for the UK 5 Dec 2018
• Free Amal Fathy! End the crackdown of human rights organisations and defenders in Egypt! 27 Nov 2018
• IHD Statement on the ECtHR’s Demirtaş v. Turkey Judgment 22 Nov 2018
• IHD Call for the Immediate Release of Turgut Tarhanlı, Betül Tanbay, Çiğdem Mater and Anadolu Kültür Staff 16 Nov 2018
• Egypt: About the formation of the Permanent Human Rights Committee 16 Nov 2018
• IHD held its 19th ordinary General Assembly 7 Nov 2018
• A new victory for the repressive regime in Egypt: Freezing “Katib” website that works on freedom of expression 4 months after its launch 5 Nov 2018
• On the arrest of Abdel Khalek Farouk: Absence of law, searching conscience, abduction with impunity 23 Oct 2018
• Egyptian Prisoner of conscience Hisham Jaafar spent three years in pretrial detention, without committing a crime, without being released or brought to trial! 22 Oct 2018
• B’TSELEM: Hagai El-Ad’s address at the United Nations Security Council 18 Oct 2018
• Banning rights lawyer Khaled Ali from traveling is a punishment for his role in the field of human rights 9 Oct 2018
• IHD Report and Recommendations for the Elimination of Injustice in Penal Legislation 9 Oct 2018
• IHD Report and Recommendations for the Elimination of Injustice in Penal Legislation 5 Oct 2018
• The Public Prosecutor has to oblige the Interior Ministry to respect the Constitution 1 Oct 2018
• IHD Observation Report on the Detention of Airport Construction Workers 19 Sep 2018
• If There Is No Defense, There Is No Law: Freedom to Detained Lawyers! 19 Sep 2018
• Recent Developments and Main Challenges Facing Yemeni Refugees in Jordan 9 Sep 2018
• Despite Eid and summer holidays, 38 social and labor protests in August ANHRI releases its 8th report on the labor and social protests index 5 Sep 2018
• IHD Statement on World Peace Day 4 Sep 2018
• Joint IHD-THIV Statement on the attack against Saturday Mothers, Families of the Disappeared, and Human Rights Defenders before the 700th sit-in 29 Aug 2018
• On the 66th anniversary of their execution, ANHRI re-issues “Retry Khamis and al-Baqary” booklet 27 Aug 2018
• A human rights position paper on the phenomenon of the mobilization of citizens’ support against the opposition 13 Aug 2018
• Nurses’ Protests against Forced Labor: A case study about the suffering of Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital 7 Aug 2018
• Alarming spike in rejections of exit permit applications by Gaza residents for alleged “family relations to Hamas operatives” 1 Aug 2018
• Israeli parliament votes to approve Nation-State Law that enshrines Jewish supremacy over Palestinian citizens 19 Jul 2018
• After State Security Prosecution’s arbitrariness and Tora Prison’s harassment against prisoner of conscience Gamal Abdel-Fattah, who cares about prisoners of conscience in Egypt? 16 Jul 2018
• Israeli legislators to vote on Nation-State Basic Law that would enshrine apartheid & Jewish supremacy 16 Jul 2018
• Violations during Propaganda Period and Voting Security 13 Jul 2018
• Press Statement: Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu’s Public Statements 13 Jul 2018
• Egypt:The decision of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation to ban publishing about Hospital 57357 is illegal 5 Jul 2018
• Before handing down the verdict on Shawkan in the dispersal of Rabaa sit-in after tomorrow, ANHRI demands dropping the vague charges against him 29 Jun 2018
• Has fair trial in Egypt become a wish hard to come true? A position paper on the holding of most trials at the Ministry of Interior’s facilities 26 Jun 2018
• UN side event – State of emergency and attacks to the legal profession in Turkey 20 Jun 2018
• Israel in blatant violation of UN Security Council demand to immediately halt settlement activities 20 Jun 2018
• Aquarius: EU and Member States must stop treating migrants as “hot potatoes” 14 Jun 2018
• The practices of Tora Prison Warden “Wael Mohammed” show that instructions from national security are above the law and the judiciary! 13 Jun 2018
• Another police measure in Egypt that resembles the practices of Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad. Travel Ban for Dr. Manar al-Tantawi 13 Jun 2018
• New investigation with Egyptian lawyer Rawda Ahmed in the strangling of civil society case 173 8 Jun 2018
• Director General of Palestinian Human Rights Organisation spends 50 hours in detention 1 Jun 2018
• Israeli Supreme Court rejects petitions against Expulsion Law, allowing MKs to oust colleagues 28 May 2018
• Release of PHRO General Director, Ghassan Abdallah 17 May 2018
• Great March of Return and Breaking Siege in Gaza Strip: 41 Civilians Killed, including 4 Children, and Around 1500 Civilians Wounded 15 May 2018
• Human Rights Groups in response to government’s decision to deport HRW official: There’s no hiding the occupation 11 May 2018
• Gaza: Second Journalist Killed in March of Return Demonstrations 26 Apr 2018
• GCR Press Release on the reinstatement of CoS’s annulled decision 23 Apr 2018
• Israeli Forces Continued to Use Lethal Force against Palestinian Peaceful Civilians 23 Apr 2018
• Bulgaria: Another Perspective on the EU Migration Debate 22 Mar 2018
• 21 March – International Day Against Racism 21 Mar 2018
• Αlmost two years after EU-Turkey statement, people are still trapped on the islands 7 Mar 2018
• In Latest Measures, Israeli Authorities Target Christian Property in Occupied East Jerusalem 28 Feb 2018
• Syria: United Nations Security Council must demand an immediate cease-fire to save Eastern Ghouta civilians 23 Feb 2018
• Gaza’s Health System is Close to Collapse 7 Feb 2018
• Turkey: Call for Action to Release the Members of Turkish Medical Association 30 Jan 2018
• Externalization, Returns and Border Control – the Migration Agenda of the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council 25 Jan 2018
• Turkey: Set Rights Defenders Free! 25 Jan 2018
• State of the Gaza Strip Border Crossings (1-31 Dec 2017) 22 Jan 2018
• JLAC: House Demolitions Report 2017 in occupied Jerusalem 9 Jan 2018
• Israel’s Show Trial of Ahed Tamimi 5 Jan 2018
• In spite of firm statements against the use of torture, Israel’s High Court of Justice refuses to recognize the torture used in interrogation 13 Dec 2017
• Europe, wake up and smell the coffee 11 Dec 2017
• The Palestinian Right to Jerusalem is An International Law that Cannot be taken away by Political Measures and Statements 7 Dec 2017
• The relations between Cyprus and Egypt must promote the values ​​of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights 22 Nov 2017
• Turkey: The Right to Defend our Rights is a Fundamental Right 24 Oct 2017
• Solidarity with Human Rights Defender Eren Keskin 16 Oct 2017
• 2017 Martin Annals: Award for Human Rights Defenders goes to Mohamed Zaree 10 Oct 2017
• Bolsa de viaje y estancia de formación para realizar el 36º Curso Anual de Derechos Humanos 2018 10 Oct 2017
• Representatives of authoritarian states hostile to fundamental freedoms should not head UNESCO 6 Oct 2017
• Catalonia: A Disproportionate Use of Violence by Public Order Forces 5 Oct 2017
• Death Penalty Should Immediately Stop: 3 New Death Sentences Issued in Gaza 27 Sep 2017
• Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Submit Substantive Communication to ICC on Israeli Settlement Activity in oPt 25 Sep 2017
• PSS Continues to Arrest Human Rights Activist ‘Amr for Demanding Application of Rule of Law 8 Sep 2017
• Lebanon – International Day of the Disappeared 30 Aug 2017
• Lebanon – Four cases of death under custody and allegation of torture 29 Aug 2017
• Precedent-setting Israeli Supreme Court ruling on Adalah petition: Israeli police not allowed to hold bodies 26 Jul 2017
• KISA calls on the Minister of Interior to stop playing with the lives of the Hunger Strikers 24 Jul 2017
• International Community must Intervene to End Israel’s Targeting of Jerusalem 24 Jul 2017
• Adalah demands Israel immediately return bodies of Al Aqsa shooting suspects 24 Jul 2017
• Adalah, JLAC: Israeli police closure of East Jerusalem & Old City is illegal 24 Jul 2017
• Adalah calls for immediate probe of police killings of Al Aqsa Mosque shooting suspects 24 Jul 2017
• Disastrous and Unprecedented Exacerbation of all Basic Services in the Gaza Strip Due to Power Outages 12 Jul 2017
• CLDH strongly condemns the acts of torture committed by the army during a wave of arrests in Arsal 5 Jul 2017
• The Republic of Cyprus should proceed with the immediate implementation of CERD’s recommendations 24 May 2017
• Fisherman Dies After Israeli Naval Forces Open Fire at him without Posing any Threat 17 May 2017
• PCHR Concerned over Life of Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails 26 Apr 2017
• Egypt | Advocates for Egypt’s street children face unjust imprisonment 23 Mar 2017
• Turkey: Arrest of Mr. Raci Bilici, Chairperson of Human Rights Association (İHD) 16 Mar 2017
• Egyptian Human Rights – Event on 6 March at UNHRC 2 Mar 2017
• Libya: Focus on anti-smuggling policies and cooperation with… 22 Feb 2017
• Turkey: Appalling Human Rights Records 17 Feb 2017
• Convening EU-Israel Association Council now risks rewarding violations of international law 14 Feb 2017
• Book launch invitation 80-20 Development in an Unequal World 23 Jan 2017
• Home demolitions in Umm Al-Hiran commence with police violence 23 Jan 2017
• Umm al-Hiran man killed after police open fire during violent demolition operation in Bedouin village 18 Jan 2017
• PCHR Welcomes UN Resolution On Israeli Settlements 24 Dec 2016
• Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 19 Dec 2016
• State opposes final appeal against demolition of Umm al-Hiran; bulldozers set to move on Bedouin village tomorrow 22 Nov 2016
• Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Holds Press Conference on 3rd Legal Submission to ICC on Gaza Closure 22 Nov 2016
• Legal challenges faces by refugees from Syria in Lebanon 17 Nov 2016
• Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory 17 Nov 2016
• CLDH: Victims of Torture from Syria 25 Oct 2016
• PCHR Follows up with Deep Concern and Warns of Arbitrary Use of Power 20 Oct 2016
• Kisa: Score Against Racism 19 Oct 2016
• PCHR: Woman Sentenced to Death Penalty in Khan Younis 6 Oct 2016
• PCHR Demands Investigation into Killing of Person and Injury of 3 Others by Security Services 28 Sep 2016
• Call: Release Hunger Strikers at imminent risk of Death 20 Sep 2016
• Report: Racist Violence in Cyprus 15 Sep 2016
• PCHR: Violations against Local Council Elections Candidates 7 Sep 2016
• Israeli military refuses to investigate attack near UNRWA School in Rafah, Gaza that killed 14 civilians 31 Aug 2016
• Gaza Two Years On: 27 cases of suspected war crimes, 0 indictments 29 Aug 2016
• DIGNITY: Documenting Torture While Providing Legal Aid: A Handbook for Lawyers 4 Aug 2016
• No to the criminalisation of women’s reproductive rights 29 Jul 2016
• Against Any Kind of Coup D’état: Defend Real Civil Democratic Life and Respect for Human Rights 18 Jul 2016
• Egyptian Security Forces Have to Stop the Violent Break up of Peaceful Assembly 13 Jul 2016
• 16 years of asylum: serious malfunctions and lack of coordination 11 Jul 2016
• ARCI: Analyse on european and italian externalization policies to Africa 28 Jun 2016
• KISA: “Abused No More” 28 Jun 2016
• DIGNITY: The invisibilized torture against women and girls 23 May 2016
• PCHR: State of the Gaza Strip’s border crossings 01– 31 December 2015 25 Jan 2016
• KISA: Sexism “the elephant in the room” 12 Jan 2016
• KISA: Urgent need to review the detention and deportation policy 15 Apr 2015