Amnesty International, a major UK-based human rights NGO, published its annual global report on Tuesday, highlighting persisting restrictions on free speech and peaceful assembly in Armenia, continued challenges for Nagorno-Karabakh refugees, and ongoing tensions with Azerbaijan. The report also noted progress in domestic violence legislation, while discrimination against LGBT people and threats against environmental defenders …

Svet Saltanat (The Light of Saltanat): A project that records domestic violence cases and displays statistics in a flashing light   27.04.2025   Article published on the rus.azattyq.org website   The Light of Saltanat is the world’s first endeavour that processes data on domestic violence in real time, say its creators.   Artificial intelligence collects …

Published by Relief Web (reliefweb.int)   23 April 2025 Relief Web identifies the key takeaways from the latest Health Cluster Bulletin on the situation with healthcare in Ukraine: Highlights While high level ceasefire negotiations continued throughout March, hostilities showed no sign of abating. According to ACLED data, the number of air and drone strikes more than …

Georgian human rights organizations, individual activists, and organizations of persons with disabilities are addressing the international community about the deterioration of their rights in the country amid protests, urging a response, including by closely monitoring the situation, expressing concern, and providing assistance. 21.04.2025 The letter, signed by some 20 organizations and about the same number of individuals, …

The Russian Government approves an Action Strategy for Senior Citizens   14.04.2025   Article published on the ASI website   At a meeting with his deputies, Russia’s Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, announced that the Council of Ministers had approved a strategy which includes measures that will support senior citizens up until 2030. According to the …

Published by: Progres Foundation (progres.online)  10.04.2025 In this article, Turkmenistan-based Progres Foundation discusses ECOM’s findings on the situation for LGBTQ+ people in the country Eurasian Coalition for Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM), founded in 2011, is an international non-governmental association based in Tallinn, Estonia, working in the field of rights and health of …

CSO “foreign agents” will not be included on the list of socially-oriented CSOs (SONGOs)   08.04.2025   Article published on the ASI website   Russian State Duma deputies have unanimously supported the adoption of four laws, increasing the level of control over “foreign agent” activities.   On 8 April, the State Duma adopted the second …

The Georgian Parliament passed the final reading of a new “foreign agents” law. 02.04.2025 The law, replacing a controversial version adopted in May 2024, broadens the definition of foreign agents to include individuals, with noncompliance punishable by up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. Based on the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act …

Pensioners living in the centre of Yerevan will have just 500 drams a day to live on as a result of increased property taxes   01.04.2025   Article published on the finport.am website   According to a report produced by the Ayakve project, pensioners living in the centre of Yerevan will now have just 500 …

Russia’s State Duma discuss a proposal to oblige parents to bring up their children jointly after their divorce   01.04.2025   Article published on the moscowtimes.ru website   State Duma deputies are working on a bill that would oblige divorced parents to continue raising their children together so that he or she grows up to …