Recommendations on a wider civil society inclusion in the OSCE response to the crisis in and around Ukraine and challenges to the comprehensive security concept – adopted at the OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference in Basel on 3 December 2014.
Almost a hundred civil society groups called on the government of Tajikistan to drop new restrictive draft legislation on NGOs and to respect the right of NGOs to have unhindered access to funding for their work.
Civic Solidarity Platform appeals to the international human rights community, as well as international and national professional associations of psychiatrists, about the ongoing practice whereby psychiatry is used for political purposes.
The Civic Solidarity Platform draws your attention to the issue of unfair trials in countries of the former Soviet Union. We acknowledge that concerns surrounding unfair trials are not unique to these OSCE participating States, but also merit attention in other parts of the OSCE region.
Members of the Civic Solidarity Platform condemn the current, unprecedented crackdowns on independent human rights NGOs and their members now witnessed in Russia and Azerbaijan.
The Civic Solidarity Platform, a collation of 60 human rights NGOs of the OSCE region, calls upon the authorities of Azerbaijan to release the human rights defender Rasul Jafarov and stop putting the pressure on the civil society of the country.
The Civic Solidarity Platform expresses its concern about the arrest of and allegations made against Mr. Alexander Sodiqov in Tajikistan and urges authorities of Tajikistan to immediately release him.
