GENEVA (20 July 2010) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday that she has information that security forces in southern Kyrgyzstan have been responsible for repeated human rights violations – including arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment – and said their actions threaten the fragile peace and re-establishment of the rule of law, six weeks after inter-ethnic violence shook the Central Asian nation.

"Large numbers of people – most of them young men, and

GENEVA (15 June 2010) – A group of UN human rights experts* today expressed their alarm and deep concern about ethnic tensions that have erupted into violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan, including the cities of Osh and Jalalabad. The violence has reportedly claimed the lives of over one hundred and left many hundreds more injured. A state of emergency has been declared in the region following the outbreak of violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. The situation has dramatically

GENEVA (14 June 2010) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed alarm Monday at the escalating violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, and urged the local and national authorities “to take swift and decisive action to protect citizens, irrespective of their ethnic origin, and curb the violence.”

Pillay said she was shocked by the scale of the inter-ethnic violence which is reported to have led to more than a hundred people being killed, and well over a thousand injured, since

Информационное агентство 24.kg (10 декабря в 11.00)

Ежегодно 10 декабря отмечается как День прав человека.  В этот день в 1948 году была подписана Всеобщая Декларация прав человека.  В 2009 году этот день посвящен проблеме дискриминации.  Запрет какой-либо дискриминации является фундаментальным в концепции защиты прав человека и обозначен во многих международных конвенциях, которые были ратифицированы Кыргызской Республикой.  

Как отметила Верховный комиссар ООН по правам человека госпожа Нави

В рамках объявленного ООН Международного Года по изучению прав человека, в Бишкеке продолжается серия Семинаров "Права человека в системе международного права и национального законодательства Кыргызской Республики". Очередной, четвертый в серии семинар "Права детей: вопросы ювенальной юстиции в Кыргызской Республике" состоится 26 ноября 2009 г. в 11.30 в Кыргызской Государственной Юридической Академии (пр. Чуй 180а, первый этаж, конференцзал, ауд. 215)

Студенты Юридической Академии и других

Средним школам предлагается представить одну фотографию на тему "Чистая окружающая среда -  мое право!"  Заявки будут приняты только от учащихся школы, обучающихся c 5 по 11 классы.

Как принять участие
Необходимо отправить ваши фотографии в электронном формате на адрес: с  контактными данными лидера группы или индивидуального автора. Фотографии также можно принести в запечатанном конверте или отправить по почте по адресу: Программа волонтеров ООН, Дом ООН, Проспект Чуй

BISHKEK (1 October 2009) – Students, journalists and professionals from NGOs and civil society dealing with protection of and advocacy for Human Rights attended yesterday, October 1st, the second of a series of seminars on the instruments for the implementation of the International Human Rights Law (IHL) in Kyrgyzstan.

This second event – entitled “Legal Protection of women in Kyrgyzstan” – was organized to illustrate some of the main challenges in the area of gender equality and women's rights

BISHKEK - On October 1st 2009 at 11:30 the second of a series of seminars on the Implementation of International Human Rights Law (HRL) in Kyrgyzstan will be organized by OHCHR and UNV, in collaboration with the League of Volunteers and the League of Young Lawyers. Venue for the event will be the Conference hall of the Juridical University in Bishkek (Chui Avenue, 180a, 1st floor, Conference Hall, Room 215). Theme of this second seminar will be the Legal Protection of Women.

The event aims at

26 June 2009 - “The prohibition of torture is one of the most absolute to be found anywhere in international law.  Article 2 of the Convention against Torture is unequivocal: “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”

And no one is let off the hook – neither the actual torturers themselves, nor the policy- makers and public officials who define

BISHKEK – Students and professionals from NGOs and civil society dealing with protection of and advocacy for Human Rights attended on Tuesday, June 16th the first of a series of seminars on the instruments for the implementation of the International Human Rights Law (IHL) in Kyrgyzstan.

The first seminar - entitled “Protecting Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan” – illustrated the different instrument Kyrgyz citizens have to protect their rights under IHL. Mr Erlan Alimbaev, lawyer, National United