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Human Rights House Foundation joins over 50 non-governmental organisations from 18 countries in calling for Nestlé to immediately stop advertising in all state-controlled Belarusian media.

In a joint statement, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) and more than 30 Belarusian and international human rights organisations call on UN Human Rights Council member States to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus during the Council’s upcoming 47th session.

In a joint statement led by Human Rights House Yerevan and its member organisations, Human Rights House Foundation and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee urge the Armenian authorities to end harassment against human rights defenders and protect their legitimate human rights work.

In a joint statement, forty human rights NGOs, including HRHF, from across the OSCE region denounce the continuing inclusion of foreign civil society organisations in the list of so-called “undesirable” organisations by Russia. This “harms international people-to-people contacts and collaboration, one of the principles of the European cooperation and security order based on the 1975 Helsinki Final Act”, the NGOs say.

On 26 May, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the 12-year sentence of Emir-Usein Kuku and five of his co-defendants. Human Rights House Foundation calls for the immediate release of Kuku and all other imprisoned Crimean human rights defenders.

Human Rights House Foundation supports a joint civil society statement calling for the Russian government to uphold its responsibility to protect and defend freedom of the press.

The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) welcomes today’s resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calling for investigations into human rights violations in Belarus as well as the release of all political prisoners without delay and an end to the violence committed against human rights defenders.

Human Rights House Foundation joins 31 international organisations condemning the politically motivated detention of journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko in Crimea. The organisations, supporting a Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) statement, call for his immediate release.

Human Rights House Foundation joins a group of international organisations calling on United Nations General Assembly member states to use upcoming NGO Committee elections to ensure civil society access and participation.