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Published in: oDRAfgan Mukhtarli: behind bars, but not forgottenThis fearless journalist was abducted from the streets of Tbilisi and wound up in an Azerbaijani jail cell. We need...
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Published in: oDR“We refused everything France wanted to give us”: Oksana Shalygina’s first post-prison interviewThis time last year, performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky and Oksana Shalygina fled Russia under threat of...
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Published in: oDR“I got called in by the KGB. They said there were no LGBT people in Transnistria”In Transnistria, an unrecognised territory between Moldova and Ukraine, documentary photography is becoming one of...
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Published in: oDRWho killed Iryna Nozdrovska?The murder of a prominent female lawyer in Ukraine questions the progress of reform and revolution.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe tentacles of autocratic regimes: the case of EgyptThe process of repression is outsourced to the citizenry who indirectly secure absolute power for the regime. It is...
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Published in: oDRIgor Yasin: “If there’s no freedom of assembly for LGBT, there’s none for anyone else”Russian activist Igor Yasin on attitudes towards LGBT in Russia’s regions, why the opposition has a homophobia...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThis is why we fight: Interview with Isabel Flota AyalaAWID spoke with Isabel Flota Ayala, an indigenous activist from the International Indigenous Women’s Fund (IIWF)...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe New Left Agenda of Human Rights in Latin America: Which Rights Matter?The resurgence of socio-economic claims and a greater emphasis on cultural rights have created a more diffuse and...
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Published in: oDRA birthday in the UralsOleksandr Kolchenko, a Crimean anarchist, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence in Russia. There’s much to...
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Published in: oDRThe Chechen watcherHundreds of desperate Chechen refugees are still stranded on the Belarusian border, waiting to enter the EU. Many...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘We need to talk’ about Sisi’s twisted take on human rightsNo one is keeping the Egyptian government from “fighting terrorism.” But Sisi’s rhetoric on the “right to combat”...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s “foreign agents” law is bankrupting campaigners and activistsRuinous fines levied against Russian NGO heads are destroying the civil sector and pushing campaigners to the brink...
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Published in: oDR“Ukraine’s veterans don’t need sympathy, they need dignity”Ukraine needs a public conversation about its veterans.
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Published in: oDRPyotr Ryabov: “Prison is the ideal model for the state”Russian anarchist writer Pyotr Ryabov was recently imprisoned and deported from Belarus. I asked him about freedom...
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Published in: oDRSyrian refugees in Russia have to fight for their rightsSyrian citizens are fleeing from their war-torn homeland, and some of them have chosen Russia as their country of...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s opposition protest: not quite a Maidan, not yet a movementAs the opposition splinters, the line between protest and destabilisation grows thinner in Ukrainian minds.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe anti-Islamist campaign and Arab democracyEgyptians, Libyans, Tunisians, and other Arabs deserve better than to be told that they must choose between...
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Published in: oDRPeace-building versus human rights in Ukraine’s DonbasDiplomatic games are being played in and around Ukraine. But officially recognising a Russian invasion is the only...
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Published in: oDRVictim of Chechnya’s anti-LGBT purge seeks justiceBut will the Russian authorities deliver on their pledges to Investigate?
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Published in: oDRHow to hide evidence of torture inside Russia’s prison systemIn Russia, law enforcement quickly puts pressure on prisoners who come forward about torture inside the prison system. RU
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