The government response to COVID-19 raised human rights concerns, including in relation to the right to health and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and movement. No progress was made in addressing systemic torture and other ill-treatment. A new NGO law passed following civil society input....

Covid-19, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, and widespread reliance on “traditional values” have compounded a deteriorating human rights situation and increasing levels of domestic violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This report exposes institutional, social and cultural challenges...

Amnesty International welcomes the Republic of Moldova’s support for recommendations on eradicating torture and other ill-treatment and to improve conditions of detention. Authorities should speed up the long-overdue construction of new prison and detention facilities and ensure they are in full...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

This report documents the state of human rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2019. It is composed of a regional overview and 12 country entries, subdivided by key human rights themes.

On 30 July 2019 Azimjan Askarov, prominent Kyrgyzstani human rights defender and director of the independent human rights organisation “Air” (Vozdukh), is scheduled to attend a court review of his life sentence following changes to the Kyrgyzstani Criminal Code that came into force in January 2019....

In 2019, Moldova marks 10 years since the tragic events of 7 April 2009. On that day, hundreds of people were subjected to arrest and beating by police in the capital Chisinau, and one protester died from the injuries he received. The most fitting way for the country to mark this anniversary is to...

The Moldovan authorities are breaching their human rights obligations in denying essential medical treatment to detainees Serghei Cosovan and David Davitean. Serghei Cosovan is gravely-ill with cirrhosis in Penitentiary Institution Number 16, and David Davitean has not received adequate medical...

Amnesty International is concerned that the right to freedom of association would be seriously curtailed in Moldova, and many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would face the risk of reprisals and potentially closure, if last-minute changes proposed by the government to the law regulating NGOs...

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Amnesty International’s Fight Discrimination in Europe campaign tackles most forms of discrimination including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. Despite the considerable advances in recent years, LGBTI people in Europe continue to be bullied at school, excluded from employment...

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Amnesty International submits this contribution in the context of the evaluation of the implementation of the Recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. Despite discrimination being prohibited by European human rights law, lesbian, gay,...