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Children Poisoned by Unknown Toxins in Berezovka, Kazakhstan, Close to the Karachaganak Oil and Gas Condensate Field

On November 28, 2014, twenty two people (19 children and 3 adults) in the village of Berezovka in western Kazakhstan were poisoned by an unknown toxic substance. The village is located in dangerous proximity to the Karachaganak Oil and Gas Condensate Field, operated by the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating, B.V. consortium, comprised of British Gas, Italy’s ENI, Chevron, Lukoil and Kazmunaigaz. After claiming for several days that they did not know what caused the 22 people to faint, convulse, and require hospitalization, doctors finally stated that the cause was clearly toxic exposure.

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Widespread Enforced Disappearances and Torture in Turkmenistan: New reports call for immediate action to ‘Prove They Are Alive!’

The ‘Prove They Are Alive!’ campaign, led by an international coalition of human rights groups, held a briefing today at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), where it launched two reports, Prove They Are Alive!: The Disappeared in Turkmenistan, and Ovadan Depe: Medieval Torture in Modern Turkmenistan.

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Turkmenistan: End Enforced Disappearances

Dozens of people have been forcibly disappeared in Turkmenistan, some for more than a decade, a coalition of human rights groups called the Prove They Are Alive! campaign said today in connection with the International Day of the Disappeared, which is on August 30, 2014. The government of Turkmenistan should immediately inform the relatives of the disappeared of their fate and whereabouts and allow them access to their loved ones.

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Press Release: OSCE Asks Turkmenistan To Prove They Are Alive

On July 2, 2014, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted its Baku Declaration, in which it specifically asks the Government of Turkmenistan to provide information on persons who have disappeared in Turkmen prisons, including Boris Shikhmuradov and Batyr Berdiev.

As the Olympic Torch Arrives in Krasnodar, Russia Environmental Activists are Detained by the Police

As the Olympic Torch arrived today in Krasnodar, Russia, the capitol city of Krasnodar Region of Russia, the police were busy detaining peaceful environmental activists …

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Evgeny Vitishko Has Become a Political Prisoner of the 2014 Olympics

Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus December 20, 2013 Judge Milinchuk sentenced Vitishko – an activist of the Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus – …

Crude Accountability 2003-2013: Defending Human and Environmental Rights in the Caspian and Black Sea Basins

Crude Accountability celebrates its 10-year anniversary championing human rights and environmental protection in the Caspian and Black Sea basins.

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Prove They Are Alive Campaign Seeks Proof That Former Turkmen Minister Is Alive

Radio Free Europe / Radio Free Liberty reports on the efforts of the Prove Their Alive campaign to ascertain the fate of 55 prisoners ten years after they were taken into custody in Turkmenistan: http://www.rferl.org/content/missing-turkmen-minister/25132776.html

The FSB Searches for Andrey Rudomakha, Leader of Environmental Watch, on the Basis of a Certain “Look”

Police come for the leader of Environmental Watch, based on illegal tapping of his phone.

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Five Kilometers of Indifference

Crude Accountability’s new film, “Five Kilometers of Indifference,” describes the many years of struggle of the residents of the village of Berezovka, in western Kazakhstan, to achieve relocation away from one of the world’s largest oil and gas condensate fields, Karachaganak.