The civilian population suffered widespread human rights abuses as a result of heavy fighting that erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh in September. Conflict-related violence led to deaths, injuries, destruction of livelihoods and displacement. Authorities intensified...

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to provide written input pertaining to the upcoming day of general discussion by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. Over the past five years, Amnesty...

Covid-19, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, and widespread reliance on “traditional values” have compounded a deteriorating human rights situation and increasing levels of domestic violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This report exposes institutional, social and cultural challenges...

For three decades, over half a million Azerbaijanis who fled war with Armenia have endured the limbo of displacement. In 2020, renewed fighting resulted in Azerbaijan retaking huge swathes of territory. As the government plans for the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people to those...

As the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh enters its third decade, renewed fighting in 2020 underscored the risks to one particular group: older people. Older ethnic Armenians were invariably among the last to flee their villages, and reportedly made up more than half of...

The Azerbaijani authorities are continuing their crackdown on political opposition, and heavy-handed approach in response to peaceful protests, in violation of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Arbitrary and violent arrests, torture and other ill-treatment of peaceful...

Women’s voices in Azerbaijan are growing in strength. Women human rights defenders, including activists, journalists and lawyers are speaking out to hold to account those responsible for a range of human rights violations and to champion women’s human rights, including their rights to freedom of...

Both Armenian and Azerbaijani military forces carried out disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks— prohibited under international humanitarian law—during a 44-day conflict in September to November 2020 over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding territories. The two sides used...

Statement issued by Amnesty International, the Baku Human Rights Club, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, the European Implementation Network, the Human Rights House Foundation, the International Partnership for Human Rights, the Legal...

Amnesty International calls on all sides to the conflict in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh to fully respect international humanitarian law and protect civilians from the effects of hostilities. On 27 September, heavy fighting erupted between Azerbaijan, on the one hand, and,...

Amnesty International is concerned about the Azerbaijan authorities’ brutal crackdown on the political opposition and against the rights to liberty, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.

Amnesty International is concerned that Talysh minority rights activist, Farkhaddin Abbasov, and ethnic Talysh blogger, Elvin Isayev, have been incarcerated because of their activism and criticism of the Azerbaijani authorities. They are victims of politically motivated prosecution and are at risk...

Amid growing concerns over the spread of Covid-19 in prisons, not only do the Azerbaijani authorities continue to hold their unfairly prosecuted critics behind bars, they have stepped up their campaign of incarceration of political opponents on spurious and politically motivated charges under the...