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Statements from institutions, governments and other organisations

Find here statements from a broad scale of institutions, governments and other organisations

International and European institutions

  • United Nations [1]
  • Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland of Council of Europe's letter to High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, Tatiana Moskalkova [2]
  • Delegation of the European Union to Russia [3]
  • Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) [4]
  • Statement delivered at OSCE Permanent Council meeting on 6 April [5]

Appalling reports of gay men murdered in #Chechnya [6]. Perpetrators must be prosecuted. @Europarl_EN [7] strongly against discrimination & violence

— EP President Tajani (@EP_President) April 5, 2017 [8]

  • VIDEO: situation of the LGBT community in Chechnya, statement by Antonio Tajani, EP President [9] 
  • The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBTI Rights [10]
  • Statement by  [11]HRVP Frederica Mogherini's  [12]lead EEAS Spokesperson on the human rights abuses of gay men in Chechnya [11]
  • MEPs call to European Parliament President Tajani [13]
  • ALDE Group of the European Parliament [14]
  • S&D Group of the European Parliament [15]
  • 2018 European Parliament resolution on Russia, the case of Oyub Titiev and the Human Rights Centre Memorial [16] 
  • 2018 CoE PACE report/resolution  [17]

​National governments

  • UK government [18]
  • German government [19]
  • Statement by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid [20]
  • Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallström

Alarmed by reports of systematic torture and killings of LGBT persons in Chechnya. Federal authorities must investigate & persecution stop.

— Margot Wallström (@margotwallstrom) April 5, 2017 [21]

We, FMs of Swe, Ger, Fra, UK and NL, have written to FM Lavrov urging Russia’s govt to investigate oppression of homosexuals in Chechnya.

— Margot Wallström (@margotwallstrom) May 4, 2017 [22]

  • Foreign Minister of Austria, Sebastian Kurz [23]
  • Foreign ministry of Denmark [24]
  • Foreign ministry of France [25]
  • Foreign ministry of Lithuania

Support CoE & OSCE calls for urgent investigation of violence vs #LGBTI [26]
persons in #Chechnya [6]. #HumanRights [27] apply to all without distinction

— Lithuania MFA (@LithuaniaMFA) April 14, 2017 [28]

  • US State Department [29]
  • US Mission to the OSCE [30]

International organisations

  • Human Rights Watch [31]
  • Amnesty International [32]
  • Article 19 [33]

Source URL: https://ilga-europe.org/chechnya/statements

Links
[1] http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21501&LangID=E
[2] https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=0900001680706eb1
[3] https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/russia/24323/statement-spokesperson-human-rights-abuses-gay-men-chechnya_en
[4] http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=6584&lang=2&cat=135
[5] http://www.ilga-europe.org/sites/default/files/osce_declaration_de_l_ue_sur_la_situation_des_homosexuels_en_tchetchenie.docx.pdf
[6] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chechnya?src=hash
[7] https://twitter.com/Europarl_EN
[8] https://twitter.com/EP_President/status/849683959298613252
[9] http://audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/Assetdetail.aspx?ref=I136844
[10] http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/european-parliament-condemns-detention-torture-and-killings-gay-men-in-chechnya/
[11] https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/24323/statement-spokesperson-human-rights-abuses-gay-men-chechnya_en
[12] http://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/24323/statement-spokesperson-human-rights-abuses-gay-men-chechnya_en
[13] http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-05-at-22.17.20.png?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=14563d5d39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-14563d5d39-189931033
[14] http://mailer.alde.eu/display.php?M=125172&C=5f547bec55210ecd40891138a0259ae5&S=4693&L=6&N=2981
[15] http://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds-call-chechen-authorities-fully-investigate-reported-detainment-100-homosexual-men-and
[16] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bMOTION%2bP8-RC-2018-0096%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN
[17] https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/new-pace-report-adopted-chechnya
[18] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-condemns-persecution-of-lgbt-community-in-chechnya
[19] http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/Presse/Meldungen/2017/170407_Erler_Verfolgung_Homosexueller_RUS.html?searchArchive=0&searchEngineQueryString=Erler&searchIssued=0&searchIssuedAfter=27.11.2013
[20] http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Infoservice/Presse/Meldungen/2017/170407_Erler_Verfolgung_Homosexueller_RUS.html
[21] https://twitter.com/margotwallstrom/status/849627977696628736
[22] https://twitter.com/margotwallstrom/status/860063468988354561
[23] https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/the-ministry/press/announcements/2017/04/austrian-foreign-minister-sebastian-kurz-says-persecution-of-homosexuals-in-chechnya-is-a-concern/
[24] http://um.dk/da/nyheder-fra-udenrigsministeriet/NewsDisplayPage/?newsID=290E3019-F0BA-4E17-ABF6-CF829C159D2B
[25] http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/russie/evenements/article/russie-droits-de-l-homme-situation-des-personnes-lgbti-en-tchetchenie-12-04-17
[26] https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTI?src=hash
[27] https://twitter.com/hashtag/HumanRights?src=hash
[28] https://twitter.com/LithuaniaMFA/status/852767125416443905
[29] http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/04/05/state-dept-urges-russia-investigate-gay-chechen-mens-arrests/
[30] https://osce.usmission.gov/reports-arrests-murders-gay-men-chechen-government/
[31] https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/04/anti-lgbt-violence-chechnya
[32] https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/6023/2017/en/
[33] https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38703/en/russia:-article-19-condemns-incitement-to-violence-against-lgbt-people-in-chechnya