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On 30 July, Roberto Rampi, Member of the Italian Senate, together with Riccardo Magi and Mauro Del Barba, Members of the Chamber of Deputies, sent a letter to ...

Italian politicians ask Kazakhstan’s ambassador for a meeting with political prisoner Bekizhan Mendygaziyev

2 August 2021
On 15 April 2021, ODF co-hosted an online conference on the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and the effectiveness of personal (targeted) sanctions ...

Online event: “Targeted Sanctions as a Tool to Safeguard Human Rights. The EU Legal Framework and National Initiatives”

20 July 2021
On 12-13 July our representative Maksym Sytnikov participated at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM). SHDM is a platform for the OSCE ...

Political arrest of Bartosz Kramek and electronic concentration camp in Kazakhstan. Open Dialogue Foundation at the OSCE SHDM

13 July 2021
On 21 June 2021 the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF), together with the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU), organized the online panel “Authoritarian ...

“Authoritarian countermeasures to targeted sanctions” – an online discussion with HRDs & MEPs

12 July 2021
The Open Dialogue Foundation, the Italian Federation for Human Rights and Freedom Kazakhstan Foundation invite you to attend the online event ...

Invitation to an online event — Authoritarian countermeasures to targeted sanctions: China’s and other autocratic responses

18 June 2021
On 25 March 2021, human rights defenders from Kazakhstan, EU representatives, academics, and journalists gathered for an online discussion “Addressing human ...

Human rights abuses in Kazakhstan: a need for the EU response – online discussion with Petras Austrevicius

21 May 2021
The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) is pleased to invite you to an online event “Addressing human rights abuses in Kazakhstan: a need for the EU ...

Invitation to an online event: “Addressing human rights abuses in Kazakhstan: a need for the EU response”

22 March 2021
A debate during the European Parliament’s plenary session on February 11, 2021, led to the adoption of an urgent resolution concerning the human rights ...

Kazakhstan: the EP’s new resolution urges for sanctions against human rights violators

5 March 2021
Electoral fraud, obstruction of independent observers & massive arbitrary arrests. Welcome to elections in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan fails to meet OSCE ...

Voices of Kazakhstan #5 post-election review of electoral irregularities

15 January 2021
Kazakh regime flexes its muscles in the run-up to the January elections Tightening the authoritarian grip (source: Int. media coverage) Despite the encouraging ...

Voices of Kazakhstan #3: pre-election review of human rights situation (23 Dec-3 Jan)

5 January 2021
On Dec 21st, armed to teeth Kazakhstani officers stormed the houses and farms of Eric and Kalyk Mendigazievs. As the official line went, they were ...

Kazakhstan’s Kafkaesque dictatorship: the authorities “playing rodeo” with its critics

24 December 2020
Please, listen to the citizens of Kazakhstan January 10, 2021, is upon us, and with it comes a critical time for Kazakhstani civil society. With the ...

Voices of Kazakhstan #2: pre-election review of human rights situation

23 December 2020
On 25 November 2020, Italian Senator and Member of the Special Commission on Human Rights, Emma Bonino, submitted a written question (WQ) to Italy’s Minister ...

Italian Senator Emma Bonino demands Italy’s MFA to condemn human rights violations in Kazakhstan

9 December 2020
On 25 November 2020, 6 members of the Italian Parliament addressed President Tokayev with a letter, expressing their deep concern about the worrying state of ...

Italian MPs alarmed by the human rights backsliding in Kazakhstan

7 December 2020
On 10 November 2020, our advocacy officer Maksym Sytnikov brought attention to the murder of human rights activist and blogger Dulat Agadil in February 2020 ...

Political killings in Kazakhstan and the need to impose personal sanctions. Our intervention at the OSCE meeting

13 November 2020
On October 16, 2020, two letters signed by twenty-four MEPs representing 14 EU Member States addressed Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the ...

Kazakhstan: MEPs are shocked by the deaths of human rights activists

31 October 2020

Publications

MEPs call on Kazakhstan to cease persecution of Barlyk Mendygaziyev

12 July 2021
https://www.iphronline.org/briefings-for-eu-kazakhstan-human-rights-dialogue-20151126.html

Systemic Misconduct by the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan on Human Rights Issues

2 October 2020

The Toll of COVID-19 on Human Rights: Selected Countries and Territories Worldwide

26 June 2020

Kazakhstan: A dialogue or bluff?

19 February 2020

Iskander Yerimbetov’s health now critical in detention facility

30 October 2019

Kazakhstan After the 6th of July 2019: Authorities Persecute and Imprison the Participants of Peaceful Protests

15 August 2019

PACE Members: “Magnitsky laws” sanctions must be imposed in response to political prosecution in Kazakhstan

15 April 2019

The list of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other victims of politically motivated prosecution (updated)

14 November 2018

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Martin Mycielski

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