FORUM ASIA spoke with Yevgeniy Zhovtis, the Director of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (KIBHR), about his career as a human rights activist. In this interview, Zhovtis discusses how the fall of the USSR inspired him to devote himself to advocating for human rights and create the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human…
A new report by the Corruption and Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) outlines how Kazakhstani government officials redirected a $48.8 million Swiss government “grant” to benefit the country’s elites. The Swiss government employed the World Bank to repatriate confiscated funds found during a criminal investigation and identified as belonging to the government of Kazakhstan. The money…
KIBHR is the largest human rights organization in Central Asia with 12 branches in the regions of Kazakhstan. The organization was established in 1993 and it focuses on the promotion of democracy, rule of law and civil and political rights in Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and worldwide.
Yevgeniy Zhovtis is the director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law since 1993. Before he graduated with honors from the High Law School “Adilet” in 1999, Zhovtis served as a union leader in the early 1990s and has been an outspoken critic of human rights violations in Kazakhstan for…