Just over a month ago on April 10, Marija Lukić, pioneer of the #metoo movement in Serbia, went on her second trial against Milutin Jeličić Jutka, former president of a small local municipality of Brus in the centre of the country.
Scattered across the world, Circassians are increasingly active online. Now in Russia, activists are putting forward an initiative to unite under a single name.
Two new reports about human right violations in Russian-occupied regions of Georgia underline that the EU needs to increase support for the International Criminal Court.
Pussy Riot, the famous Russian feminist punk band, gave a concert at CIVICUS’ ICSW annual conference in Belgrade this week. The show focused on the experience of protesters being jailed in Putin’s Russia, something they themselves have endured. Español
After a year in pre-trial detention, Oyub Titiyev becomes the latest civil society activist to be convicted on what rights defenders believe are fabricated drugs charges.
In Russia, 11 anti-fascists and anarchists are facing terrorism charges - and the case is about to go to trial. According to one of their lawyers, there's no evidence of a conspiracy.
This year, brutal repressions against LGBT people continued in Chechnya. Here, the director of the Russian LGBT Network speaks about why this keeps happening.
Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and recognition.
