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As the year comes to a close and we prepare for our 15th anniversary in March 2018, we are celebrating our accomplishments and rolling up our sleeves for the work ahead...
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Safeguarding civil society participation in the Helsinki process – a matter of the OSCE’s raison d’être
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), believe that restricting civil society participation in the work of the OSCE would be a tremendous setback for the Helsinki process and a...
Civil Society Appeal to French President Macron on Energy Investments in Azerbaijan
Dear President Macron:
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) expected decisions to invest in the Trans-Anatolian...
Third-year anniversary of the Berezovka tragedy
These days mark the third-year anniversary of the mass poisoning by toxic emissions of the Berezovka children. For the past three years, children have continued to suffer from loss of...
Turkmenistan: Attack on the Home of Prominent Turkmen Human Rights Defender Farid Tukhbatullin’s Mother
Statement by the Civic Solidarity Platform
November 2, 2017
According to multiple sources, on the night of 28 to 29 October,...
HDIM 2017: Crude Accountability Highlights Harassment of Environmental NGOs and Activists
During the annual HDIM session, Crude Accountability delivered a statement on the rights of environmental defenders in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The statement highlighted...
Letter to EBRD President on His Upcoming Visit to Azerbaijan and Meeting with Aliyev
Sir Suma Chakrabarti
President
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
One Exchange Square
London EC2A 2JN
United Kingdom
September 7, 2017
Dear President Chakrabarti:
Your...
Dangerous Work: Increasing Pressure on Environmental NGOs and Activists in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union and the U.S.
Crude Accountability, together with Ecoforum of NGOs Kazakhstan, present a report Dangerous Work: Increasing Pressure on Environmental NGOs and Activists in the Countries of the...
Director of Azerbaijan’s Last Independent News Agency Arrested on Trumped Up Charges
Washington DC---Crude Accountability is appalled at the arrest of Mehman Aliyev, director of Azerbaijan’s last independent news agency Turan News, and calls on western governments and...
Turkmenistan: Free 18 Men Tortured, Sentenced in Unfair Trial
Credible reports of the arrest, torture, conviction following unfair trials, and imprisonment under inhumane conditions of 18 men in Turkmenistan have been provided to Amnesty International and...