The Crude Accountability team joined 1500+ delegates from civil society, media, and governments at the 2024 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference to address pressing issues the OSCE region is facing today, such as continuous threats to fundamental freedoms and rights, including climate and environmental justice.

Our Executive Director Kate Watters delivered a powerful intervention during the plenary on grave human rights abuses in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

While we were unable to speak at the plenary on fundamental freedoms due to time constraints, Kate delivered remarks afterwards, calling attention to Azerbaijan and its unprecedented crackdown on independent voices. Listen to her full remarks here.

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On November 11, thousands of government representatives, climate activists, corporate executives, and oil and gas lobbyists will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

With over 20 years of research and advocacy experience in Azerbaijan, Crude Accountability has collected comprehensive materials specifically focusing on the environmental and human rights impacts of the fossil fuel industry in the country, which can help journalists and scholars understand the context of COP29. 

You can access all of our material in our media kit here.

Crude Accountability staff can be reached for questions or comments at: info@crudeaccountability.org

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In a recent Politico article, the children of Gubad Ibadoghlu call on the U.K. government to press for their father’s release as COP29 nears.

Read the full piece here.

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In our latest blog, Timur Idrisov, senior adviser at Little Earth, an NGO based in Tajikistan and a member of the Climate Action Network in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, reflects on the current state of indigenous peoples’ participation in climate negotiations, especially in light of the upcoming COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

To ensure a meaningful dialogue on climate, mechanisms and resources must be allocated to the development of engagement with Indigenous people and civil society organizations.

Read the full piece here.

On National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom (October 3rd), Dash Arts, a London-based arts organization, commemorated the occasion with a throwback post to Voices From The Dark – an event held in late 2018 in association with the Prove They Are Alive! campaign and the Open Society Foundations that launched the poetry collection Parting Song by Batyr Berdyev.

Berdyev was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, and arrested in 2002 for allegedly participating in an alleged assassination attempt on then President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov. While in in prison, he managed to write poems and smuggle them out. The collection was published by Crude Accountability.

To learn more about the conversations at the event, read the transcript here.

Mark your calendars for December 4th and join us for a night of celebration!

Crude Accountability is thrilled to support the 2024 Community Sentinel Awards presented by FracTracker and Halt the Harm Network! Join us as we honor courageous individuals across the U.S. who are fighting on the front lines of the environmental justice movement.

Learn more about this inspiring event and how to attend here.