These are reports written and compiled by Civil Rights Defenders’ experts. The aim is to give an overview of crucial human rights issues in the countries and regions where we work. The reports are updated annually.
(Updated in January 2012) East Africa encompasses Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and in a wider sense also Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia (including the self-declared republic of Somaliland). The East African region is long subjected to economic underdevelopment and unequal terms of trade and conflict. At the same time, it [...]
(Updated in January 2012) The era after gaining independence has been turbulent for the five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia is still described as one of the most repressive regions in the world. Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources [...]
Human rights defenders across Southeast Asia’s lower Mekong countries are fighting against restrictions on freedom of expression. The situation, however, is extremely varied across the nations: while there is widespread fear and over 2,000 activists in prison in Burma, activists in Thailand are able to publicly discuss and criticise restrictions on peaceful free expression. Democracy [...]
(Updated in September 2010) Upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in October 2010 have marked the past year and seemed to have delayed the attempts to bring much needed constitutional changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of 2009. Efforts made during Swedish and later Spanish EU presidency by EU and US to bring the [...]
(Updated in September 2010) Macedonia has not developed the way many had hoped for, during the last few years. The country has still not met the necessary requirements set up for beginning negotiations for EU membership. The reasons for this are many but the unsolved name issue with Greece and the failure to include the [...]
(Updated in October 2011) Moldova is a country in political and constitutional crisis. Moldova held parliamentary elections twice in 2009 and once in November 2010. The results of the elections show a country that is almost evenly divided between the Communist Party, on the one hand, and pro-Western parties on the other. The pro-Western parties [...]
(Updated in September 2010) More than two years after independence Kosovo is far from being a state based on the principles of rule of law, democracy and human rights. Kosovo is today far from being a consolidated democracy but rather a state where ever more power seems to be consolidated around individuals, some government officials [...]
(Updated in September 2010) The parliamentary election held in June 2009, has had far reaching consequences for political developments in Albania. OSCE described the election as marking progress compared to past elections, but not fully realizing international standards. The Democratic Party (DP) won a narrow victory over the Socialist Party (SP), which still does not [...]
(Updated in September 2010) The event with greatest consequences for Serbia in the past two years was the declaration of Kosovo independence in February 2008, only 16 months after the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Since then, relations between Serbia and some of the neighbouring countries have become strained and foreign [...]
(Updated in September 2010) Montenegro is a potential candidate for EU membership. Montenegrin officials expect that candidate status will be obtained until the end of 2010. The Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU entered into force on May 1, 2010. Montenegro, as part of Serbia and Montenegro, additionally fulfilled the majority of the [...]
(Updated December 2011) The overall situation in Belarus seemed to remain on a stable, negative level during 2009 and 2010 with small improvements as a result of the dialogue between Belarus and the EU. However, since the elections on December 19, 2010, the human rights situation has hit an all time low with a massive, [...]
(Updated in May 2011) The overall human rights climate in Russia remains very negative. Russia is a highly corrupt country at all official levels, which undermines the observance of the rule of law. Russia is also ranked among the top ten of the most dangerous countries in the world, and has undergone a massive rise [...]
(Updated in September 2009) It is easy to assert that Sweden does not have problems with serious offences against human rights as compared to other countries, but this is of little comfort to the individual whose rights are being violated. One of Civil Rights Defenders’ main tasks is to survey and report on the state [...]
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