New legal analysis reveals several serious breaches of the constitution of Kazakhstan by the authorities during the tragic events of January 2022. Article 34.1 of the...
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The long-overdue criminalisation of domestic violence in 2017 was a major step in the right direction for Ukraine. Progress since then however has been limited. Ukraine...
Ten years after of the landmark declaration of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on women’s rights, a significant number of countries in Central and...
Romania has made some progress in implementing judicial reform since a Liberal-led government took office in late 2019, but needs to quicken the pace in order to meet...
Turkey has withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention, which seeks to prevent violence against women, including domestic violence, and bring an end to legal impunity for...
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is broadly immune to criticism. Whether its critics come from within Poland itself or externally from the European Union...
Moldova has made little progress in implementing reforms to improve the prevention of corruption in respect of parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors, according to a...
Daniel Mitov writes in an op-ed for Emerging Europe that the situation in Georgia “is a poor sign for the health of an aspiring democracy”. Mr Mitov is entitled to his...
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (pictured above) was forced to leave the country on August 10, as part of deal with authorities to free her campaign...
Lithuania is failing to make use of the unique opportunity given to it by being in the European Union, according to a new report looking at human rights in the country...
You write too much about Estonia, and it’s always complementary – a genuine ‘complaint’ from a reader of Emerging Europe. Well, throwing convention and my usual...
Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to clamp down on opposition, according to a new report from Amnesty...
