New informationBLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080.1BelarusJuly 15, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in…
URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY BLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080 Belarus July 14, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention…
14 July, the morning following the adoption of the UN resolution condemning the human rights situation in the country, Belarusian authorities conducted a large-scale raid on human rights defenders. Searches took place in the offices of Human Rights Center Viasna,…
ADC Memorial is deeply concerned about today’s searches and arrests of our Belarusian colleagues from Human Rights Center Viasna and other civil rights initiatives – BHC, Human Constanta, Lawtrend, Gender Perspectives, independent journalists, trade unionists and others. Political repressions against…
On March 8, 2021, the International Women’s Day, a discussion was held under the chairmanship of Heidi Hautala, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Among the participants of the discussion were MEPs Sergey Lagodinsky and Marketa Gregorova, representatives of human rights…
Charter97.org: Several rallies in support of women activists in Belarus and Russia were held in Brussels on March 8. DW report on what Brussels thinks about the “female face” of the protests and the situation in Belarus. In the evening,…
Viasna protests ongoing repression of its activists Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” March 5, 2020 The Main Department for Investigation of Crimes in the Sphere of Organized Crime and Corruption of the Central Office of…
On February 16, 2021 the massive searches, detentions and interrogations of human rights defenders and journalists took place accross Belarus. The searches started early in the morning and lasted for several hours, the latest ended by night. Several activists have…
Last week, the UN Human Rights Council reviewed the situation in Belarus as part of the Universal Periodic Review and the OSCE Special Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus published a report. On November 3, 2020, Belarus presented its national…
Irina Kostevich, Belarusian Minister of Labor and Social Protection, has announced the government’s plans to abolish the list of professional occupations prohibited for women, which currently includes 181 professional occupations and 42 spheres of work. In her opinion, modern technologies…
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