24 OSCE participating States invoked the Moscow Mechanism last week in relation to Georgia, launching an independent expert mission to assess the implementation of Georgia’s OSCE human dimension commi...

Den norske Helsingforskomité ber om gransking og mulig etterforskning etter nye opplysninger i Epstein-filene.

We demand that the Russian Federation immediately disclose the whereabouts of Ukrainian citizen Snezhana Kozlova and release her.

Обьявление на русском языке здесь The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is glad to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our Small Grants Program for human rights in Central Asia. We invite non-...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited the NHC and awarded Berit Lindeman a medal 'For Distinguished Work for the Benefit of Belarus'.

UPDATE: On November 12, the lower house of parliament (the Mazhilis) adopted the amendments introducing a ban on propaganda of so-called “non-traditional sexual relations”. The bill will be considered...

On 9 May 2025, foreign ministers met in Lviv, Ukraine, announcing the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The Tribunal builds on resolutions by the UN Ge...

People First! Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights defenders, former political prisoners, appeal to President Trump before meeting Putin

These articles could not have originally been published by local Uzbek media due to self-censorship and the fear of journalists facing reprisals. Publishing this article would likely have led to crimi...

Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index shows that press freedom is moving in the wrong direction in an increasing number of countries. More than half of the world’s population lives in countri...

I lys av at det i 2025 er 50 år siden de europeiske landene, Nord-Amerika og Sovjetunionen undertegnet Helsingforserklæringen ønsker Helsingforskomiteens årsmøte i 2025 at Norge må gi nødhjelp til dem...

In November 2024, we launched the Advocates for Change – Civil Society Support for Türkiye (AfC) to provide critical support at a time when civic space is under increasing pressure. We stand with civi...

Despite sanctions, goods produced in Western countries increasingly reach Russia via China and Hong Kong, totaling $9.2 billion from April 2022 to July 2024. Including all goods produced by Western co...

Armenia og Aserbajdsjan sier de er enige om en fredsavtale. Folk Klassekampen har snakket med i ­de to landene, tror likevel ikke at konflikten er over.

Tens of thousands continue to participate in overwhelmingly peaceful mass protests across Türkiye, marking the largest demonstrations in over a decade. The protests, which initially began in major cit...

In the early morning of March 20, law enforcement officers in Kyrgyzstan detained Kanyshay Mamyrkulova. Mamyrkulova’s relatives told local media that police officers arrived at her home in the morning...

ICJ Norge og Den norske Helsingforskomité støtter at Norge ratifiserer endringer i vedtektene til ICC om aggresjonsforbrytelsen, vedtatt i Kampala 11. juni 2010, og forslaget om et nytt straffebud om ...

According to information, published by Tajik media, the ruling People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan won 49 out of 63 seats. The remaining seats were divided among four pro-government parties: the A...